‘Robert McNamara, Crime Syndicate Head’

As I read my copy of the new Look, just before the fall semester began, I felt I’d burst from sheer euphoria. The editors assured me that the students I’d be facing in my new college-teaching post would all be bright, eager-for-knowledge, postSputnik youngsters who, when not reading profound tomes for the sheer intellectual joy, would be manning CORE picket lines to demonstrate their concern for their less fortunate brethren.

As a former H.S. teacher, I couldn’t explain this sudden metamorphosis which had taken place in the three months since their graduation; but then, would Look [!] lie?

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As I read my copy of the new Look, just before the fall semester began, I felt I’d burst from sheer euphoria. The editors assured me that the students I’d be facing in my new college-teaching post would all be bright, eager-for-knowledge, postSputnik youngsters who, when not reading profound tomes for the sheer intellectual joy, would be manning CORE picket lines to demonstrate their concern for their less fortunate brethren.

As a former H.S. teacher, I couldn’t explain this sudden metamorphosis which had taken place in the three months since their graduation; but then, would Look [!] lie?