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...opposite. At that time we hoped that the people had sufficiently grappled with the problem of implementing parliamentary democracy in a society which had lacked a tradition of the logical articulation of ideas. We hoped that amid the confusion and chaos of the period, the principles of parliamentarianism would sink deeply into the consciousness of the Japanese people...
Possibly the classic example of this irony is the "Exeter Syndroms". Among the best prepared students in the country, Exeter graduates reject academic values, rebel against the system, and leave Harvard in greater numbers (and percentages) than any other group. These graduates of a tough sink-or-swim system much like Harvard rate themselves highly, and especially prize their own sophistication. Many of those most dependent on this self-esteem are attracted to the College...
Under the Ice. A long-range project to be started this season is to turn permanent icecap bases into under-ice towns. As snow accumulates, the U.S.'s present buildings sink deeper and deeper beneath the frosty surface. New buildings will be put in deep ice trenches. Observation towers and other structures that to be useful must remain above the surface will be mounted so they can be raised as the snow piles high...
...develop our humanity, many of us have let the values of production and consumption dominate us. Means which should serve our material and spiritual needs and help us more fully to realize our human potentialities have instead become ends in themselves. Deprived of control over circumstances, we often sink into apathy and irresponsibility. Or driven by insecurity and fear, we strike out violently against others and ourselves, detsroying the fabric of community which might support our self-realization...
...Harry Truman thought they should be shot. The U.S. intelligence community braced for an onslaught of congressional investigations. Meanwhile, back in Moscow, William Martin and Bernon Mitchell, their babbling press conference brought to a halt by a Soviet official who thought it was going on too long, began to sink into the limbo that the Soviet Union reserves for turncoats who have been milked of their last drop of propaganda value...