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...answers seem to be: "Not much tripe" and "Very well in deed." In chapters on "The Sex Urge," "Frigidity and Incompatibility", and "Matrimony Wreckers'' there is much rehearsal of sex-psychology- prudish parents, prurient children; ignorant girls, boorish men - that will seem, in its sanity, almost old-fashioned to those who are brave enough to buy the book after they learn that the long, frank fourth chapter is on "Homosexuality." There is even the statement: "If man is polygamous, woman is polyandrous," with the usual demonstration that each is nothing of the kind. If that fails to reassure...
Last week the Egyptian Cabinet refused this offer. Mr. Rockefeller, patient, let it stand. He had accepted a form for his deed of gift drawn up by the Egyptian Cabinet itself; yet when it was returned to Egypt with his signature attached, Egyptian political stumbling-blocks barred its acceptance. Mr. Rockefeller waits...
...Dean Moore and Dean Greenough presents significant variations from the form. For example, whil the percentage of Seniors seeking distinction has increased in one year ten percent and in two years eighteen the proportion actually achieving it has slightly fallen off. The wish is evidently not father to the deed. The much heralded post-war renaissance of study seems at first sight not to go beyond the vaporings of a fatile ambition. If, however, the undoubted fact be weighed that the college's four-year tax on labor has become progressively more severe, then the evidence that distinction that...
...Society, Latter Day Sinners and Saints, The Russian Soviet Republic. But Wisconsin has a brand new president of whom it expects much, Dr. Glenn Frank, lately editor of the Century. And Dr. Frank is still on unfamiliar ground. He has been going cautiously, observingly; has been noncommittal in deed and statement, so far. He has said he is "willing to be reactionary as the Tsar of Russia on Monday, or as radical as Leon Trotzky on Tuesday," if facts warrant (TIME, Nov. 2). What facts lie behind Professor Ross' outcry he has yet to determine...
...matter of fact my experience shows me that the thought of capital punishment has the effect of making the criminal wary and cautious in covering up his deed...