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This temporary code might be called Harvard's Hatch Act, and like any law, it should first of all be detailed and specific. It is not enough to state that location of rallies will be fixed by the Dean's Office. Students must know exactly what streets, what steps, what squares they may invade. Just as the ban on Yard against sound trucks at Stillman should be patently clear. And if the Dean's Office is going to say "Stop" and "Go" to College publications, it should broadcast the whys and wherefores ahead of time. Last term there were charges...
...bonds of orthodox Hinduism are stronger in Madras than anywhere else in India. Abstention from liquor, tobacco and meat are cardinal points in the orthodox Hindu code. Prohibition is spreading from Madras to other parts of Hindu India where orthodoxy is not so strong. Nationwide prohibition has long been one of the main planks of the Congress Party, and the party has pushed it wherever it could. About one-seventh of Travancore, half of the Central Provinces, portions of the United Provinces and the East Punjab are experimenting with liquor bans. Both Bombay and New Delhi have control systems...
Radio dreads the verbal burp; television, the unbuttoned button. Last week, television preserved the decencies just in time by shutting its eyes. True to the old code, it apologized by explaining that it was a cinder, or something...
...ruins of the war, Faulkner shows the mean-spirited and hard-driving Snopeses, poor whites who absorbed the cheap commercialism of the carpetbaggers, rising to economic and social power by defeating the Sartoris clan, impotent aristocrats talking about the code of chivalry but unable to bring it to life. Faulkner is especially adept at portraying the creatures of the decayed South: Gowan Stevens, a gentleman of the old school, who learned to drink in a Virginia college but not to overcome his cowardice; Flem Snopes, who would not hesitate to stamp on every living creature to satisfy his greed...
...post-bellum Southern variety. Years back, old Daniel Armstrong (of the hardy and gallant Armstrongs) had been cheated out of a large inheritance of land by Simon Gerrard (of the grasping, industrious Gerrards). One family blights the land with its deceit and vulgarity; the other hopelessly defends the old code...