Word: worthlessness
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Deak once sat atop a bundle of old Israeli pounds that had been called in by Israel and were thought to be worthless. He managed to dispose of them in -of all places-Arab Lebanon. What happened to the money after it reached Beirut? In Deak's business, one does not ask such questions...
...either that Faculty members have anything but papier mache between their ears or that this is what the Harvard student meets in his classes at Harvard. Why doesn't the Yearbook look in detail at a professor or two to show that the life of intellect is worthwhile (or worthless, as the case may be)? Why not a feature on the too-familiar teaching fellow, what his problems are and how he solves them...
...part of Harvard, the HRO has a responsibility to educate its members and its listeners, not just to entertain them. I hope that next year the officers of the HRO will urge this responsibility so forcefully on their new conductor that we will have less safe and worthless programs...
...tangible effects of the demonstration are few, and the white student may wonder if his trek south has indeed been more than an unusual experience. If it is a single attempt, then it has been worthless. If it is the beginning of an active commitment, then the contribution has been valuable. Influencing the southern whites will obviously be a long process with dubious results. Official integration is only the first step in overcoming the material and spiritual effects of generations of prejudice. The harder task will be to enlist southern participation in this cause. As in any social revolution, such...
...Count blared the title, and delighted fatties swallowed every word of Dr. Herman Toller's book. They also gobbled tons of safflower-oil capsules as prescribed by Taller. It was bad enough when the Food & Drug Administration retorted that calories do indeed count and that safflower oil is worthless. But Taller's own fat was really in the fire when it came out that he apparently had a financial interest in a safflower-pill manufacturer endorsed in the book. That, said a Federal indictment filed last week, amounts to mail fraud, conspiracy and violation of the Food, Drug...