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...disturbed to read in a recent Crimson about the intent of founders for a Harvard chapter of the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) to "seek undergraduate funding." According to the article, they hope that CHUL will put a $3 surcharge on student term bills to bankroll them, if they can get a majority of students to agree to the scheme by signing their petition...
...help stutterers, each project chapter holds weekly meetings to discuss various therapies,* as well as plans for dealing with job discrimination and social ridicule. Members also take the opportunity to unload their pain and resentment. Says Goldman: "These are people who never, never before participated in any group. Many just don't interact with people outside their immediate families. The shame runs very deep...
Amnesty International's basic tactics have proved effective for years. A local group "adopts" three known political prisoners: one in a Communist country, one in a non-Communist developed country, one in a "nonaligned" Third World nation (no group adopts prisoners in its own country). The adopting chapter boosts the morale of the prisoner with letters and material relief to his family, and bombards government officials at all levels with letters seeking his release. According to MacBride, "The avalanche of mail is the biggest annoyance to most governments. Soon the issue is being raised at Cabinet level, and everyone...
...found in Robert Greene's 16th century The Scottish History of James the Fourth, Act III, Scene 2: "I'll make garters of thy guts, thou villain." "Sock it to me," of disc jockey notoriety, can be found as far back as Mark Twain: "In chapter 33 of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, the Yankee, who is, naturally, the narrator, gets into a sociological argument with the smith and says: 'I prepared, now, to sock...
...unusual touch in Auerbach's rather lengthy autobiography is that it does not seem to be completely ghost-written, as is the manner of most sports books. Instead. each chapter contains an historical text by Joe Fitzgerald, a longtime Boston sport-writer including comments about Red from players, relatives, friends and enemies (including the references he terrorized for years), and a few pages of italicized comments from Red himself, which read like transcribed tapes. The result is, surprisingly enough, a lot more readable and interesting than most sports books, which are generally aimed at an eighth-grade audience...