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...Self. There are three main areas to be operated upon, represented by the vows. The vow of poverty, designed to cut through the hampering entanglement of material things, operates on many levels; Carmelites and some other religious are forbidden to use the word "my" except for their faults (they refer to "our" cell, "our" Breviary). Poverty applies equally to any kind of attachment. Sisters are systematically frustrated by their superiors in the tendency to become identified with a particular job or hobby. Still more strictly applied, the vow of poverty applies also to impressions. Contemplatives are actually enjoined...
...George J. Evans of Middlezex, the other co-chariman, had hoped that the Committee would refer the original five bills to the Commission on Communism to avert a floor vote. The only recourse left to the opponents of any such measure now, he said, is to request another postponement of the vote to obtain an advisory opinion from the State Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the bill...
...issue. "Disobedient," "broods," "lazy," "never plays!"-Poppycock! At my present age of six years I will . . outpull any team of horses-in proportion to my weight. As for not playing, my master says I wear out toys more quickly than any other dog . . . . If by "unsociable" you refer to a certain digestive peculiarity that results in a sort of double-barreled halitosis, I may concede that point, but I still should like to "get hold"of your reporter right where it would do the most good...
...letter was the abuse of scholarships at Harvard. There will always be alumni urging men to go to their college, and lending or giving money. There is no abuse here if the spirit is right. . . . But anyone who still believes Harvard is ridden with athletic scholarships should refer himself of to Dick Clasby's article to the Saturday Evening Post. He gave up his scholarship, and incurred a debt to play football. Richard W. Darrell...
Political spokesmen for organized labor, echoing Democratic campaigners of last fall, still refer to 1954 as a recession year. But union economists last week reported to the American Federation of Labor executive council in Miami Beach, Fla. that wage increases in 1954 "provided more of a gain in real wages [e.g., purchasing power] than increases in other postwar years, for they were almost entirely over and beyond the amount needed to compensate for rises in the cost of living." The report showed that two-thirds of 1954 union-management contracts brought wage increases of 5? to 9? and about...