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...answer all year. While private campuses have never been so in need of alumni cash, alumni have never been so angry at protesters. By last week, enough checks had come in so that fund raisers finally knew which box to check. At most campuses, the donation trend is surprisingly upward. There are fewer gifts, but the sums are bigger than ever...
PHAROAH SANDERS, KARMA (impulse!) Sanders reaches to the religions of the Far East for his spiritual overtones, using an assortment of percussion instruments, horns, bells and even incantations. In The Creator Has a Master Plan, sensuous, mesmerizing sounds roll over repeated phrases, curling peaceably upward like incense. In Colors, Pharoah's tenor saxophone begins a tempest of cries and emphatic screeches that hint at lurking discord in the universe. The harmonious moments of his music, though, far outnumber the discomforting ones, and suggest a passionate belief in man's perfectibility...
...neurophysiologists now see it, when a man gets a shot of penicillin in the buttock, the stab sends an impulse along the nerve fibers to the fourth lumbar vertebra (see diagram). Then the impulse travels upward and soon crosses over to the opposite side of the spinal cord for its journey toward the brain. Along the way it triggers an automatic reflex that causes the man to flinch and tighten his gluteal muscle. After the impulse reaches the thalamus, a major (and evolutionally ancient) junction box at the base of the brain, where it is perceived as pain, it proceeds...
Under ethological examination, even ordinary smiles take on new wrinkles. One of the most common is what the Birmingham scientists call the "simple smile," a mere upward and outward movement at the corners of the mouth. It indicates inner bemusement; no other person is involved. The "upper smile" is a slightly more gregarious gesture in which the upper teeth are exposed. It is usually displayed in social situations, such as when friends greet one another. Perhaps the most engaging of all is the "broad smile." The mouth is completely open; both upper and lower teeth are visible. It is typically...
Inflation, which has smashed wage guidelines, sent interest rates to record levels and jacked up a host of indexes, has claimed another victim. Because the farm price index has reached a 17-year high, the retail price of food, which is what irritates people most about inflation, will continue upward. Last week the Agriculture Department reported that prices received by farmers rose 4% during the month ending May 15, and were 8% higher than a year ago. The meat index rose 9% during the month. Prices received by farmers for vegetables jumped 25%, while the dairy product index exceeded that...