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...slightly different terms, Professor William Alfred described what is essentially the same problem, noting the students' habit of suppressing their own perceptions and immediate responses, holding back what they think and feel. Rather, in writing term papers, students often try to write what they think will please the reader, asking themselves: What does he want us to see? What does he want us to feel? The immediate personal response is never cultivated, never expressed. It gets lost in the desire to please, to be "safe...
...part of an inferior group of students. All kinds of awards, scholarships, and statistics could serve as witnesses in this argument. The first four class Marshals this year, for example,--Charlie Ravenel, Newell Flather, Tom Blodgett, and Bruce MacIntyre are all outstanding personalities who participated in athletics. If the reader regards the Class Marshal elections as mere popularity contests, he should take note of a statistical study made in 1954 on the percentage of distribution among various rank list groups of undergraduates and selected student and alumni groups. the two athletic organizations studied, the crews and varsity football, placed nobody...
...trade-which, he warned, could be completed only "at the cost of increasing the power of the tyrant." Mississippi's Representative John Bell Williams introduced a bill that would make the proposed swap a federal offense, punishable by $5,000 fine, three years in prison. Wrote an indignant reader of the New York World-Telegram and Sun: "I have been sick to my stomach with shame...
...adult reader with a strong stomach, the scandalous and scurvy parts are worth reading more than the ornithological thimbleriggery. When Miller assumes the role of atheist-theologian, no such apocalyptic poppycock could be found outside the atelier of a Sunset Strip swami. On encountering words like "Life," "Love," "God," "Art," etc., a first rule for the reader is to reach 'for the safety catch of his syllogism. If not armed with this weapon he could try a simpler trick, what might be called the "No Game" of slipping in a negative each time Miller makes a cosmic positive statement...
...book is of interest on three levels. Considered simply as a series of anecdotes and epigrams, it is highly amusing, though a bit slow in places. Its character sketches help the reader to understand many important figures of the postwar world. But perhaps its greatest value lies in what it reveals about Acheson himself...