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...thrilling and complete victory. Not since the New York Times' expose of Boss Tweed has any newspaper crusade been so unqualifiedly successful as your defeat of the HCUA. Others who consider that student government at Harvard is a waste of precious time have ignored it, but they are a lesser breed than you. Hardly has a day gone by when your courageous pages have not declared to all the world that the HCUA is a joke! Less dedicated editors might have been tempted to cooperate with University officials and "student leaders" in drawing up plans to improve student representation...
...visas would be for unmarried children, over 21, of U.S. citizens. The third preference and the remaining 20% would be granted to spouses and unmarried children of aliens living permanently in the U.S. Any unused visas would be for other relatives of U.S. residents and for workers with "lesser skills." Parents of U.S. citizens and natives of recently independent Western Hemisphere nations would be given immediate nonquota status...
...decline in sales revenue by 1962. A successful bond issue was as rare as snow. Despite 35 separate attempts to build one, San Diego remained a city without a convention hall. In virtually every other sector of the economy from transit to schools, San Diego was lagging far behind lesser and less-blessed cities...
Lonergan's new students start by tittering at his singsong voice and unmelodiously flat Latin pronunciation, and end by despairing at his blithe unconcern for the frailties of lesser intellects. Once, after failing to get a philosophical point across to his class, Lonergan brightened, said: "I think this will make it clear," proceeded to cover the blackboard with differential equations. During a World War II discussion about the loss to mankind in bomb-gutted libraries, Lonergan argued that the important things were in people's minds, not in books. In answer, someone cited Shakespeare...
FRIEDA LAWRENCE, edited by E. W. Tedlock Jr. In the correspondence and other collected writings of his wife, D. H. Lawrence is pictured more as a prig than an immoralist, she as a lesser but fascinating Lawrencian heroine...