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Fortunately, there is machinery provided to circumvent the administrative rigidities. Exceptions can be made to the long-standing rules through a complex system of votes by various committees. A standout player who missed his Yale game because of illness or injury can be awarded his letter. But the machinery is too involved and slow-moving; therefore, it is little used...
...Guilt Complex. In Madisonville, Tex., a local cattlemen's association launched a national "corrective campaign," hopefully offered a prize to the child of an out-of-state veteran (trained in Texas) who wrote the best letter on "Why My Daddy Is Wrong About Texas...
Europe's guilt is more complex, more subtly expressed, and more easily abused. Its burden is the burden of Western man's whole failure to make more of his life and his world than he has so far made. It rests with especial weight upon the conscience of Europe, because it is here that Western civilization has come to visible and extreme; catastrophe. Europeans may tell themselves, as they do, that the younger peoples of the American hemisphere share the failure. But it is to European eyes that the ruin of Berlin, the chaste and ordered scars...
...A.A.G.P. started, the delegates picked Louisiana's tall (6 ft. 2 in.), Texas-born Dr. Jason Poland Sanders. Like most Texans, he has no inferiority complex. Says he: "I never feel I have to apologize to any specialist. A man may know brain surgery, but I know more about feeding babies." Back home, Dr. Sanders, a greying 54, hustled to get his state's organization started fast. He knew the family doctor's problems. For 21 years he had been a general practitioner in Caspiana (pop. 265) and in Shreveport, where he runs the Sanders Clinic. Within...
Suffering from an inferiority complex after last year's flasco season, primed with the alibi of no outdoor practice, the tennis team sailed into southern waters last week with all the odds against it. Team members hoped to make the four matches close; they didn't expect...