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Good Sense. Belgium's achievement is enough to make a lot of economists throw in the slide rule in disgust. To the austeritarian school (prevalent in Europe and some U.S. quarters), prosperity, like chivalry, is an archaic notion, something that apple sellers in the '30s expected just around the corner. And even a good many plain Americans have agreed that free enterprise, if not downright immoral, is at least impractical in Europe today. Yet Belgium, like a healthy old chain-smoker defying the anti-nicotine prophets, is both prosperous and free...
Editorially, the slow-footed Enquirer is outboxed by the nimble Scripps-Howard Post, which recently backed a successful local campaign to keep proportional representation, over Enquirer opposition. And it still suffers from typographical schizophrenia: modern headlines adjoin archaic one-word holdovers of Civil War days. But the Enquirer can afford to move slowly; it has a monopoly on the morning field. There was a fair chance that the Enquirer's trustees had put too high a price on the paper. Bids, due May 15, might not come within a mile of the $10 million the trustees hoped...
...second place, there is absolutely no discernible justification for having the gates closed, now or ever. This fact climinates all thought of officials instigation of the crime, for the University seldom violates the canons of common sense by keeping an archaic regulation overlong on the statute books...
...time high school drama teacher, read Holabird's letter, "I would say that the conditions for producing worthwhile group theatre projects at Harvard more nearly correspond to an archaic nineteenth century public high school than to a leading American university...
...result of too little self-indulgence, but of too much; not of over-restraint and inhibition, but of irresponsibility, guilt and immaturity. "Above all," Mowrer concluded, ". . . the ethical accomplishment of untold past generations, as imbedded in the conscience of modern men & women, is not a stupid, malevolent archaic incubus, but a challenge and guide for the individual in his quest for self-fulfillment and harmonious integration." (For a psychologist, it was almost a psalm...