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...second demand of the Berkeley strikers calls for the university to drop charges against those arrested last week and to refrain from taking disciplinary action against any of the students involved. Even if the university were prepared to ask that charges be dropped, the Alameda County District Attorney's office would ignore the request, so that part of the second demand is impracticable and irrelevant. But for the Berkeley administration to compound the situation with discipline of its own would be to treat the strikers as criminals. No step would be more sure to stall a solution to the present...
...third straight year, Harvard has a solid outfit. But anyone who has watched Crimson fencing the past two years will refrain from wild optimism. Harvard will begin, as usual, by clobbering a string of third-rate teams, but Columbia and N.Y.U. will continue to be invincible. And Harvard may continue to drop sloppy 14-13 decisions to Cornell and Princeton, as it did last year...
...obtrusive style. He devised what he called The Camera Eye-poetically subjective inlays in the raw plain-deal prose, where the novelist had his metrical fling out of earshot of his characters. Another invention was the impressionist profile of contemporary figures, of which the most famous had the echoing refrain: "Wars, machine-gun fire and arson-good growing weather for the House of Morgan." These sketches-of Henry Ford and Big Bill Haywood the Wobbly leader, of Rudolph Valentino and Isadora Duncan-were brilliant in themselves and had great influence on the style of journalism...
Rockefeller retaliated with a public relations machine slicker than a well made cue-ball. What other candidate offers reporters wine as they skip from town to town in plush bus or plusher plane? The refrain is "This is Leadership. Let's Keep...
...then the real composer stands up to pound out a refrain on the piano. "It's the slow movement from my jazz octet," Garner muses vaguely, although by the set of his shoulders he looks more like a split end hating himself for goofing a touchdown pass. Anyway, music distracts him from the dialogue, which runs to such sturdy old chestnuts as: "There are names for women like you," and raises the suspicion that the real escaped mental case has holed up somewhere and begun churning out scenarios about amnesia...