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With this loss of a monopoly over knowledge, Brewster said, the most important function of a university will be to provide a climate where "20 years of unbroken competition for nothing worthier than test scores" is not allowed "to dampen all aspiration, intellectual as well as active," and "where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure...
Emerson Hynes, McCarthy's legislative assistant, said the senator is not worried about adding another exemption to the books. "We have thousands already for businessmen," he pointed out, "and this one seems worthier than many of the ones we have, like oil depletion allowances...
...York Times last week deplored the fact that "unwelcome guests" can "prance easily into our midst while hundreds of thousands of worthier souls are barred altogether." But U.S. law lets Latin Americans immigrate without a quota. Political asylum seekers are tested for: pauperism, subversion, moral turpitude. Neither Pérez Jiménez nor Estrada is anywhere near broke; the strongman is said to have squirreled away $250 million. Neither has Communist or Fascist ties, nor has either plotted against the succeeding government (the ground for denying Perón a U.S. visa). Neither is technically guilty of moral turpitude...
...arguments, the Oxonians had to admit that their worthy opponents were worthier than they had expected ("They're extraordinarily good, you know," said Rees-Mogg). The judges-former Governor William S. Flynn of Rhode Island, Justice Harold Williams of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Harvard Law School-apparently agreed. Their unanimous decision: victory for Norfolk -the first U.S. team to defeat the gentlemen from Oxford...
...alarming portion of young people in Cleveland (where I live) seem rude, insolent and very vague about what is right or wrong. This includes seemingly trivial things: shouting at people walking by, rude jokes about girls, exaggerated "sex-interest," exaggerated "money-consciousness," and disinterest in anything worthier than crime novels, gangster films and certain magazines . . . ADOLF A. PERLES Cleveland...