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...murmur of delicate truths-the double-sunrise suggests the early stage of marriage; the oyster, with small shells clinging to its back, symbolizes the middle years of marriage, children, the home; the moon shell reminds her of the importance of solitude. Finally, the paper nautilus recalls the free ebb and flow which she thinks necessary in all good human relationships...
Still, a few bumpy experiences should not have discouraged the editors so easily. Neither God nor Country operates on a five-day week. Nor does the world of journalism, since the desire for news does not ebb and flow with the das of the week. What will happen to Saturday cocktail parties, which have always featured equal parts Gilbey's gin and News gossip? The Men of Yale deserve the news on Saturdays. We have given it to them, and we intend to continue to publish a New Haven CRIMSON each Saturday, until the editors of the News face...
...mother calling "Come to me," her own daughter calling "Mummy," and finally a man telling her that her husband was unfaithful and she should leave him. She had left him many times, only to wind up in hospitals, where electric shock made her outwardly calmer but with no normal ebb and flow of emotional responses. After reserpine, and with no more help from the psychiatrists than she had always had, the woman went home on a maintenance dose of one reserpine pill a day. Her husband had only one complaint: she had become so demanding in her new-found love...
...some reason pre and post game activity reached a low ebb. A mild disturbance before the Yale game was the only bright spot, but most of the noise and spirit came from a hard core of beer-drinking Elis. Oldtimers sadly remarked that the days of Pogo riots will become legendary when the class of 1955 graduates, and Harvard apathy will even extend to riot-making...
What is more, in Western Europe as a whole the Communist position has deteriorated. All that this shows is that the relation between atomic power and the ebb and flow of Communism is complicated and indirect. There is no ground for Sen. Knowland's prediction that an atomic stalemate means the Communist conquest of the world...