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...their own. The elder generation wants to work short hours, get high pay, ride in big cars and watch television." The effect on the schools, said Grayson Kirk, has been devastating. "Many a bright student finds only boredom in a class where the intellectual level is pitched to the duller students. Many will even conceal their capacities and knowledge because . . . they are intimidated by the anti-intellectualism that dominates so many classes...
...view with regret the statement by some gentlemen from our neighbor school to the south who say that perhaps the Game today is not all that it is reputed to be. The prefer, they say, the cleaner, more temperate quality of the Princeton game to the duller more liquid bouquet of the Contest with the Crimson...
After a lot of dull plot and duller dialogue (Brigitte: "I've got a flat." Man helping her with her bike: "I'd never have suspected"), the hero (Christian Marquand) refuses to marry the girl, so she takes his brother (Jean-Louis Trintignant) instead. She does her best to make her husband's brother jealous, and the moviegoer curious-here comes that sheet again. She wraps it around her so that the husband can see what's inside and the audience can't. But by this time, the spectator, if he happens to be grownup...
...little two-point discrimination, and may need to have the compass spread three or four inches. But the hand can distinguish the two points when they are but a fraction of an inch apart-and there the senses of touch will also distinguish between the sharp steel and the duller pencil point...
Under snickersnee-sharp questions from Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy (and duller ones from politically minded committee members, e.g., "Do you really feel that this is within the boundaries of basic Americanism . . .?"), Brewster squirmed about a $99,999 bank roll listed by his own Seattle Local 174 under "Special Fund...