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...Scout, horrified to find the glory that was Greece reduced to such sordid circumstances, decides to do a good deed. With the secret financial assistance of the local vice czar, who fears the prostitute's casual price policy will ruin his market, the hero initiates a program of cultural aid to the heroine's underdeveloped area: the mind. Obligingly, the heroine at first abandons the pleasures of the body, discovers the pleasures of the intellect. But in the denouement she also discovers that when nature is denied, spirit suffers too. The film ends with a blare of strumpets...
...incident, this summer Richard Nixon was accorded the Republican Presidential nomination, and less than a week ago Dean Bundy announced the possibility of another rise in Harvard's tuition.... And yet none of these dismaying events is more than a prosaic prelude to the shocking deed perpetrated the day before yesterday in New York...
...wall. Mirsky's prose is full of fire and yet maintains a reserved dignity. Only once does the writing seem to go out of control, for I don't understand the important passage explaining the rabbi's cry of "Shkootzim, shkootzim" at the children who had perpetrated the evil deed...
...half the physics majors in the state-college system. The average freshman IQ: 120-125. The faculty Ph.D. rate: 63%. By 1970 S.D. expects 25,000 students. Says President Malcolm Love, onetime boss of the University of Nevada: "Though we are called a college, we are in deed and in fact a university...
During that same season, he made the interscholastic All-America in the 50 and 100-yard freestyles, a deed that caused swimming observers to take notice. Among these were Cambridge citizens, who urged construction of a city pool. Just following Hunter's graduation from Latin, the City completed its War Memorial Pool, located adjacent to the high school...