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...talks reluctantly about his personal background--his Mt. Vernon, Ohio birthplace, and the chronology of his rise to the superintendency of Illinois' Evanston Township High School. But, when the conversation turns to the present problems of education, Michael slowly smooths his white hair and speaks with great deliberation, pondering aloud the complexities of educational policy...
...denouncing as "ladies' underwear" the episcopal finery that the bishops have to put on while there. Quite predictably, he stands at the outer periphery of the church's policymakers. He is not a methodical reformer, a dynamic organizer, but a prober, a prelate who says aloud what others may think in silence, who raises critical but often embarrassing questions for debate. Like Socrates, he feels that it is sufficient for a thoughtful man to be a gadfly...
After reading the statement aloud, Judge Parker asked if any of the defendants objected to it. When no objections were raised, the case was dismissed...
...read aloud a letter he recently received from a Montana mother of four...
...rumors ("She's gone to Beirut, or Beverly Hills, or some place; she's not here; she's never coming; she never has been here, neither has he"). Always there are people, deposited by misfortune on the wrong block, who stumble bewilderedly down theater row, wondering aloud whether Mme. Nhu is back in town or what? But they are adventuresome souls and queue up anyway. The crowd is pushing 3,000, and each other...