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Last week's session, however, was considerably livelier than the somnolent meetings of the past. For one thing, most members were present; ordinarily at least 50% are absent, partly because they receive no salary. The more compelling reason, however, was that the newly arrived British delegation had declared its ambitious intention of turning the European Parliament into a sort of continental Westminster. "We are going to operate as if this were our own Parliament." declared Peter Kirk. 44. leader of the 21-person British delegation (the antiMarket Labor Party declined to send its allotted 15 delegates). "We will make...
Moreover, a successful integration program requires certain advance planning and sensitivity on the part of school officials. Repeatedly, when such planning has been absent, the result has been a heightening of hostility between the races. Blacks come to feel that they are not welcomed at the school, and whites resent the increased physical violence that frequently occurs. In many cases students are afraid to use the restrooms. One white mother whose son had been beaten up twice in the restroom explained: "Integration has made my son a racial bigot...
...five members who were either absent yesterday or did not sign the statement are: Dean Dunlop; James F. Hays, professor of Geology; William N. Lipscomb Jr., Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Norman F. Ramsey, Higgins Professor of Physics; and, Isadore Twersky, Littauer Professor of Hebrew Language and Philosophy
...trol showed that students have nearly three-quarters of all accidents; house wives account for only 11%. Younger skiers tend to push themselves beyond their capabilities. Dr. Seymour Epstein, a psychologist at the University of Massachusetts, profiled the accident-prone skier: he is more daring, more boastful and more absent-minded on the slopes than...
...down in the street. Thin urban, and afflicted with nervous habits, the reader has to "put on spectacles" (and, with rare exceptions, defective in such natural endowments, he does wear spectacles) to reduce the blur which contemplation of the world produces. In literature there is an order which is absent elsewhere; in the poem, stanzas erect an imagined realm exclusive of chaos. The reader, whose desperate activities I've compared to those of an addict, turns to the Cantos with regret; he would rather read the measured lines of Pushkin...