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...interviewing students, SNCC hopes to determine how each applicant will act in a totally alien environment; this applies especially to Northern students. The pre-summer meetings are designed to prepare the student for (his or her) role in a Southern community and to weed out those students who may not be able to make the transition...
...that, Shakespeare's audiences must have roared approval. And again when Shylock, an alien, is shown to be subject to another Venetian law: that an alien attempting a citizen's life must forfeit half his goods to the state, half to the victim. The play was boffo in a day when every Englishman had to be his own lawyer to survive, and if it seems dated now, it is still perhaps the most concise summary of justice triumphant over dry legalism that English literature has yet produced...
...homo-sexual fantasies, which, after he quit the drug, disappeared. "But I am very glad that I had this experience for it has taught me to understand homosexuals a little better. It has also taught me why Freud was so fond of quoting the old proverb, 'Nothing human is alien to me.' "Before Weston finishes, he manages to construe a few more turgid moralisms for readers in the "square world...
Last spring, Harvard and the AEC clashed over the administration of a $5 million a year grant for the operation of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. The University contested the AEC's right to veto the employment application of any alien and to control all information released by the CEA to Soviet bloc scientists...
...Rossiter argues urbanely but urgently that the earlier Rossiter-with a host of other U.S. scholars-was wrong. It is a "myth," says the Cornell University historian, that Hamilton was a "fabulous reactionary" with views alien to the U.S. environment. Indeed, his "works and words have been more consequential than those of any other American in shaping the Constitution under which we live." Every schoolboy knows that Hamilton was the archfoe of the democratic Jefferson and the archfriend of aristocracy. But few Americans today realize that it was Hamilton who first elaborated the doctrine of judicial review, pointing...