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With such an objective in mind, the Committee makes expedient and utilitarian judgments in cases of discipline. Though concerned with the consistent administration of principle, it is far more concerned with the preservation of peace. Thus, for what appear as lesser violations, graver punishments can be handed out; the action is justified in that it best serves the continued peaceable function of the University. Though OBU might have seized the Faculty Club, broken into University Hall, and mauled policemen, the consequences of their dismissal would have been too damaging to the University to allow the Committee to take such action...
...playing for the pros-time studying Chinese. "Basketball and or if he doesn't play at all-he'd like to continue Studying Chinese somewhere in East Asia. Dale made the first step in his journey to the East last summer when he worked as a messenger between the lesser assemblies in the United Nations in Geneva. While there, he worked at improving his Chinese by conversing with translators and Chinese-speaking delegates...
Sixteen years ago, John F. (for Francis, not Fitzgerald) Kennedy, a former employee of a Boston stockroom, followed a similarly named Senator into Massachusetts politics. The lesser J.F.K. parlayed his name into election as state treasurer. This year a Cleveland businessman who also happens to be John F. (for Francis) Kennedy is running for Ohio secretary of state. Others have potent patronymics supported by heritage. Adlai Stevenson III, Illinois state treasurer, is after a U.S. Senate seat. Robert Taft Jr. wants to represent Ohio in the Senate...
...note that the playwright, Anthony Sloan, a pseudonym adopted by the Roundabout's artistic director, Gene Feist, has not tampered with the basic myth. Oedipus has murdered his father, married his mother, sired an incestuous brood, and his eyes are gouged out. What Sloan has done, albeit with lesser aesthetic power and wit, is what Anouilh and Giraudoux have done with the Greek myths...
...more immovable than physical and temperamental obstacles to the apprehension of most art forms, excluding food, is our own intellect. In literature, art, and to a lesser extent music, the reacting human mind, even at its peaks of receptiveness, often confuses intellectual and emotive responses...