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...zeal to serve the majority of undergraduates at the beginning of vacation, Lamont was unnecessarily inconsiderate to those who didn't or couldn't escape. For the intrepid student who was bogged down in overdue papers during the holiday, or the threadbare midwesterner who could not get home, Lamont was a library without books. The inarticulate and the spare of physique, not to mention those who enjoy food, were decidedly the losers after the lunch-hour battle at Desk One's bargain basement on Friday...
...collectors, recruited priests to ring church bells as warnings of inspectors approaching. When delinquent taxpayers were seized, Poujade packed the auctions to buy back their belongings for next to nothing (1? for a sofa, ½? for a radio). Sometimes Poujadists roughed up tax inspectors to discourage their zeal. Soon Poujade could boast: "In 70 departments, we are the bosses...
...quality denied to a work of art throughout the ages is privacy. Unless participation is allowed the spectator, it becomes a hopeless riddle and ceases to be any work of art at all ... What the new Academy of the Left has yet to realize is that in their fanatic zeal they have not achieved freedom of movement for the modern artist. They have merely substituted the rubber girdle for the whalebone corset...
...Search for Bridey Murphy, Author Bernstein has nothing new to say about hypnosis or reincarnation. But his amateur zeal, and perhaps the need for something to take the place of the slipping Power of Positive Thinking, has made his sessions with Ruth Simmons one of the fastest-selling books in the U.S. today. Already more than 70,000 copies have been printed, and another 100,000 are coming from the presses. The movies have picked up the book for a rumored $50,000, and 30 newspapers have taken it for serialization. As might have been expected, Bridey is doing best...
...have been asked in a handful of books about Southeast Asia, notably Norman Lewis' A Single Pilgrim (TIME, April 26, 1954). Author Shaplen manages to suggest that the answers are easy without really giving any answer. Faced with immensely complex problems, Hero Adam Patch wades in with the zeal and vocabulary of a New Republic editorial. The U.S. consul in Saigon, he chafes under what he thinks is stifling official caution. If only his stuffy superiors would let him get to the little people of the villages, let him bypass the complacent French, and let the Vietnamese...