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...publicity. Schmidt was apparently not willing to countermand his concessions directly. Nonetheless, long-haired soldiers last week were reluctantly snipping off their locks in response to yet another Defense Ministry order. On the hygienic pretext that excessive hair length could lead to parasites or skin diseases. Schmidt ruled that henceforth no soldier's hair could reach below his collar...
...rate Mersault concludes - like that other overweening youth Stephen Dedalus - that he was not made for love but "for the innocent and terrible dark god he would henceforth serve. To lick his life like barley sugar, to shape it, sharpen it - that was his whole passion." Instead he dies rather romantically of tuberculosis...
...clergy and laity within their regions on the type of candidate needed. (Collective consultations with groups like priests' councils, though, are ruled out, to avoid any semblance of an electoral process.) The rules also increase the number of bishops involved in each nominating process. National episcopal conferences may henceforth approve, disapprove or add to lists of local nominations that previously went straight to papal representatives and on to Rome. In addition, any bishop anywhere may forward his own nomination directly to the Pope. The Pope reserves the option of choosing names not on the lists...
Defenders of Harvard's position on Gulf may well be totally innocent of the odious associations and reputation of their argument, but I must express the hope that henceforth they will not be so indelicate as to repeat it. Going to bed with strange fellows, even if one's virginity remains intact, is a custom to be deplored...
...most popular choice is marriage. "On being married," Kaufmann writes, "millions of women echo Ruth's beautiful words in the Bible: 'Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.' Henceforth they will make no more fateful decisions; they will leave that to their husbands." For men as well as women, marriage is sometimes only a way of avoiding lonely choices. If joint decisions turn out badly, neither partner need feel responsible; each can claim that, left to his own devices, he might have acted differently. In other cases, marital partners make no decisions...