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...team that's playing over its head just cannot absorb a bad break like that. Thereafter the Harvard squad lost some of its electrifying vigor and the Tigers shook off their sense of shock...
...little bully grew up in a broken home; his mother neglected him one day and besieged him with affection the next. Marcello diverted himself by killing animals. "It was from cruelty that he derived the only pleasures that did not seem . . . insipid." At 13, he suffered an unforgettable shock: a grownup invited Marcello to his room to see a revolver, then began making homosexual passes. Marcello, in a panic of fear and fascination, picked up the revolver, fired and fled...
...annual "horsing" ceremonies of class day held every spring, the members of the Tiger senior class poke fun at their masters and deans. Various responses are received, shock, surprise, or distaste, but one man who is noted for his good-humored handling of the situation is Dean of the College FRANCIS R. B. GODOLPHIN (left, as rickshaw boy). Godolphin is shown above halfway through his race around Nassau Hall, dragging a Princeton senior in a rickshaw. According to tradition the race begins with Godolphin as the passenger, but somewhere on the other side the two change, and Godolphin comes...
Cohn and a group of doctors told the National Academy of Sciences that this medicine, which is derived from the human blood, may be used to combat shock and treat burns. The scientists expect it will replace both plasma and serum albumin, an anti-shock medicine, in use against war wounds or atom-bomb casualties...
...youth is more or less promiscuous than it used to be is a matter of disagreement. Fact is that it is less showy about sex. Whatever its immoralities, it commits them on the whole because it enjoys them, and not because it wants to demonstrate against Victorian conventions or shock Babbitt. In that sense, it is far less childish than its parents were. As a whole, it is more sober and conservative, but in individual cases, e.g., the recent dope scandals, it makes Flaming Youth look like amateurs...