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Larrabee made a great deal of sense in his opening remarks, but he was one of the few who hit the target during the whole long day. Most of the general sessions and panel discussions engaged themselves in a wild chase after a definition of leisure, usually concluding that intellectuals are incapable of distinguishing between work and play...
...which was fine, but it soon became obvious that Larrabee, or someone, should have defined leisure. The student panel that followed more or less decided that, for the student and for the intelligentsia, the distinction between work and leisure is a false one. In a way, it is, but you can't have a conference about leisure if you won't admit that it exists...
...afternoon session of the 15th rural Program Alumnae Conference, panel debated the question, "Revived: That the hidden persuaders have a legitimate and necessary function in our society...
Throughout the week, Robert Francis Kennedy spent his mornings and afternoons as a member of a four-man panel, headed by retired Army General Maxwell D. Taylor, that the President had appointed to find out just where the CIA went wrong in planning the Cuba invasion, and to recommend changes in the nation's intelligence system. When not digging among the Cuba-invasion ruins, Bobby Kennedy was at the White House, serving as the President's closest counselor. It was usually late in the afternoon before Bobby got to the Justice Department to carry out his tasks...
...most conspicuous excellence; it gives the new translation an undeniable modernity and immediacy; and this, of course, has been one of the chief aims of the churchmen who prepared it. In 1951, Dr. C. H. Dodd, General Director of the whole project, as well as convener of the panel of New Testament translators, promised that the New English Bible "is to be genuinely English in idiom, such as will not awaken a sense of strangeness or remoteness." In the same manner, the Introduction, published with the New Bible, announces that the language of the text is "the current speech...