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However the Court rules, the issues surrounding the Bakke case will undoubtedly continue to perplex American social institutions in the near future...
...abuse by unscrupulous promoters in recent years. Being the unassuming (and somewhat thickheaded) bear that he is, he has not protested when snatched up by entrepreneurs to be their moneymaking lure. Sears salesmen palm off bogus Poohs on cups, cereal bowls and children's clothes. In his Pooh Perplex, Frederick C. Crewes uses Winnie as a straw bear to be analyzed in every way imaginable in a parody of literary criticism. Walt Disney latched onto the Pooh image in an hour-long cartoon, but substituted Hollywood caricatures for Shepard's illustrations of Pooh and his friends. Disney even went...
...Professor Parkinson's handling of the then Lieutenant Hornblower's heretofore unsuspected murder of Captain David Sawyer (H.M.S. Renown, 74 guns) on the West Indies station in 1800.* A pedant or a gross popularizer would have made much of the incident, but Parkinson, clearly not wanting to perplex inattentive readers, presents it in Appendix 2, reproducing a letter from Hornblower to his descendants that was not made public until...
...reasons for the calm atmosphere perplex educators and vary from campus to campus. But certainly the May strikes gave students and faculty a nightmarish perception of chaos. Says Albert Hastorf, the Stanford dean of humanities and sciences: "People got scared. In the 'feel-not-think' philosophy they saw their world coming to an end. This fall the point of many lectures has been that thinking is not necessarily an ally of fascism." On the contrary, it is realized here and there that nonthinking and anti-intellectualism are the real allies of totalitarianism. The Kent and Jackson State killings...
...bursts of images, much like the structure of Robert Lapoujade's brilliant Le Socrate . But in that film the quick cutting served as a form of chorus, while here the psychic icons of the central characters create a mosaic of emotional cross-references, used in turn to bore, startle, perplex, or electrify the viewer. The nature of these icons, which compose the main body of the film's formal statement, is too varied to effectively catalogue here, but includes a great deal of crude psycho-social imagery concerning the fall of idealism since the second World War: the role...