Jackpot!

Here are the results of the Delectations Contest (announced in the February 3 issue), which asked for answers, in fifty words or less, to these questions: 1. How do you tell right from wrong? 2. How would you decorate a tissue box? 3. What is your favorite truth? 4. How would you describe the flavor of chocolate? 5. Do you prefer regret or remorse, and why?

The High-Minded and Incorruptible (as well as inscrutable) Judges want to thank all of you for the very large number of entries, serious or otherwise, and generally heartfelt. Answers poured in from as far away as Hawaii and Japan, California being especially well represented. (There must be a lesson in this, but what is it?) A message to Oran Palmer, philosophy instructor at the Claremont High School, who sent in a number of entries by his 14- to 18-year-old students: Bill Buckley was so impressed with the high standard of these entries that he will acknowledge them in his own way; thus I won’t go into detail about them here. Contributors were about equally divided between men (several of them priests) and women. As noted in earlier contests, contributors were for the most part neat, orderly, and polite, and good typists as well.

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Nika Hazelton

Here are the results of the Delectations Contest (announced in the February 3 issue), which asked for answers, in fifty words or less, to these questions: 1. How do you tell right from wrong? 2. How would you decorate a tissue box? 3. What is your favorite truth? 4. How would you describe the flavor of chocolate? 5. Do you prefer regret or remorse, and why?

The High-Minded and Incorruptible (as well as inscrutable) Judges want to thank all of you for the very large number of entries, serious or otherwise, and generally heartfelt. Answers poured in from as far away as Hawaii and Japan, California being especially well represented. (There must be a lesson in this, but what is it?) A message to Oran Palmer, philosophy instructor at the Claremont High School, who sent in a number of entries by his 14- to 18-year-old students: Bill Buckley was so impressed with the high standard of these entries that he will acknowledge them in his own way; thus I won’t go into detail about them here. Contributors were about equally divided between men (several of them priests) and women. As noted in earlier contests, contributors were for the most part neat, orderly, and polite, and good typists as well.