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Jack Vaughn, director of the Peace Corps, last night denied charges that the Peace Corps has lost its old idealistic fervor and joined the 'establishment;' "We are a free speech movement," he asserted...
...rare public appearance at Harvard two years ago at a "Speak-Out" on the Vietnam War. Compared with the score of illustrious professors who spoke before him, Sorokin was not well known. But in spite of his age and his ill health, he overwhelmed the audience with his fervor, his intellect, and his unbending hostility to America's foreign policy...
...activist glorifies the act: man is the sum of his acts, what he understands doesn't count, it's what he does which is the ultimate measure of the man. The academic protects his vested interest with equal fervor: the action must be subordinate to understanding...
Miss Brodie is a teacher of iron whim and blowtorch fervor. She is also an eccentric spinster whose frustrations, romanticism, spunk, pride and biological gusto are forever making her break out of the prim parochialism of a stuffy 1930s Scottish finishing school for girls. Zoe Caldwell acts up a typhoon in the title role of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but is nonetheless unable to conceal that she is one character in pressing search of a play...
Water for Indians. Today, at 29, Lorenz has a 130-member staff, maintains eleven offices. Most of the 35 lawyers who work under him are fresh out of law school and, like Lorenz, burning with idealistic fervor. Nearly a third of the work is focused on consumer and employment problems. Another third involves litigation against Government agencies, and the remainder centers on domestic relations and housing problems. In 1967 alone, C.R.L.A. has handled 9,516 cases, each involving an average of 2.5 persons, at an expenditure of only $38.50 per person...