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Farms for Lease. Today, American schoolchildren commit to memory the names, dates and events that the Courant once committed to print. In 1765 the paper published a wrathful editorial ("The most arbitrary monarchs in the universe") and suspended publication for five weeks to protest the Stamp Act just enforced by England. Thomas Paine's revolutionary tracts were carried in full in the Courant; so was the Declaration of Independence-on an inside page, and under the mildest of headlines: A DECLARATION BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
...would have to conclude that the accounts of massive persecution of the Buddhist religion were, at the best, vastly exaggerated, and at the worst a sordid propaganda fraud. We were told that the Diem government was guilty of such brutal religious persecution that innocent Buddhist monks were driven to commit suicide in protest. Now it turns out that the agitation was essentially political." Concludes Dodd: "What this all adds up to is that the American people have once again been grievously misinformed by some of their newspapers on a foreign situation that vitally concerns them...
...ethics of the theater is that your personal problems cannot interfere with your work. Actresses have to compromise. So they marry the saxophone player, or the doctor, or the faggot. Anything so they don't have to function as women. Me, I'm going to try to commit to the real world...
...generally educated man. Most of those who take this view are dismayed by the greater and greater specialization among undergraduates, however helpful such early specialization may be to those who wish to get an early start on their doctorates, intense specialization also puts heavy pressure on undergraduates to commit themselves prematurely to a narrow area of study, and it can be argued that an undergraduate education deep and narrow is not the best preparation for the student who plans to make his career someplace outside the academy. It has even been argured that the future academician should have an undergraduate...
...more genuine understanding of the race issue in the south than in the north. But never a discussion of the meaning of social justice or a serious grappling with the roots of prejudice. As for sexual morality, he offered a re-affirmation of the commandment, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." I kept wondering if he felt that adultery was the issue on college campuses. Nothing whatsoever was said about what is happening to human beings in our world and of the moral dilemmas that face every...