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...Center's labors have been as prolific as they are aimless. Already seven lengthy volumes have been published, five written entirely by Professor Sorokin. Included in these works is a 500-page study entitled "The Ways and Power of Love", and a shorter analysis of "American 'Good Neighbors' and Christian Saints...
...Subjects who showed typical reactions were those rated "well adjusted," had few emotional or sex problems. The atypical reactors were relatively aimless, drifting types; they had suffered from demanding fathers and overprotective mothers (some had married young to find a mother-substitute), and bristled with anxiety and hostility. They were also the heaviest drinkers...
...hero as a young man is aimless and faceless, in love with an equally faceless, eminently boring girl, and finally driven to leave Pompey's Head for no convincing reason. The returning adult hero has a perfunctory fling with an old flame in the big brass bed in which he slept as a youngster: "And when at last he possessed her, in a wholeness of possession he had never known or dreamed, past and present came thundering together." But the thunder is hollow: not for a moment is even the most optimistic reader allowed to think that Lawyer Page...
...Student Council members meet next Monday in PBH for the last meeting of the 1954-55 term, they will be able to look back on an outstanding record. Their administration, characterized by harmony and responsibility, is a clear contrast to the Council stereotype--resulting from past ineptness--of an aimless group of petty politicians, unawake to undergraduate interests, weak in dealing with the administration, and ineffective in student affairs. Members of the incoming Council and of future Councils may well use the past year as an example of what we hope will be a continued effort to make the Council...
...very day that Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov flung out his fresh proposal for Big Four talks on Germany, a slender, gaunt man with aimless hair and blazing eyes rose in the United Nations General Assembly. The real solution to the German problem, he declared, lies in "direct talks ... for unification of Germany . . . A German peace is necessary for world peace, and a German peace means the unification of Germany in whatever way it is brought about." The Soviet-run government of East Germany, he said, is as free and sovereign as that of West Germany...