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...democracy is to combine the political role of citizen with the social role of technocrat, a body committed to narrowness by habit and inclination should be the last source from which help is sought. The Faculty as individuals have long since abandoned a real commitment to the broad concept of the educated...
Moses declared that the Federal government has the power to secure such reforms. "The big question," he said, "is whether it is willing to probe into our whole system of law, whether it is willing to weigh its concept of the law and the sanctity of the Federal system against the lives of the people being killed in Mississippi...
...peculiar that a Special Committee to Review General Education should be charged with this failure. And it is ironic that by its failure to confront such a central question, a committee which so strongly endorses the concept of General Education has done Gen Ed a disservice...
...group, grew weary of wearing her cousin's castoffs, set up shop, sewing and selling her own designs. Instantly British teenagers, themselves weary of the butch look, flocked to the tiny Chelsea workroom, emerged looking more like Cossacks and guardsmen, sailors and hockey players. Audacious in concept, vivid in execution and realistically priced ($20 and up), Mary Quant's offbeat styles (a typical dress trimmed red flannel with black lace, included a striped bodice and a quilted hem) caused such a local stir that buyers hurried over from abroad. Today, with a posh London office, a vast European...
...Hare, where jet fuel demand is heavy; it is also planning lines directly into neighborhood service stations to replace tank trucks, considering community tanks from which metered home oil burners could draw directly as gas burners do. For its part, the gas industry is pushing a "total energy concept," in which pipelined gas will do everything from generate electricity to cool air and heat water. Gas companies are already demonstrating a backyard barbecue that is fired by natural gas. It includes, they insist, even the charcoal aroma...