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Page Four High Life November 14, 1966 New York City Too Much For Boy; Elevators/ Revolving Doors Scary When you are only five and feel a little couragoeus, trouble is usually only around the cor- New York is a city of sky scrapers. Many of these are apart ment buildings. In one of the buildings on the seventeenth floor stands our subject, a five year old boy not yet accustomed to the height or the elevators. His parents, uncle and aunt have decided to go to Bronx Zoo this sunny summer day. After his mother helped him dress he got tired of waiting and walked out of the apartment door un noticed. Outside the apartment door are three tall metal doors. On the side of the doors are two black buttons with arrows pointing down and up on them. He could reach the bottom button so he decides to push it. All of a sudden the metal doors slide open ex posing a small room. He walks in just as the doors close behind him. Now behind the closed doors a sickening feeling hits his stomach. There are more buttons so he pushes one on the bottom. After going down a few floors the doors open. As he walks out the doors slide close. There at the end of the hall is a door. His first thought was to get to the door and get safely in side once again unnoticed. When he reaches the door he finds it is locked. After knocking twice a maid opens it and stands in the doorway looking at a poor little boy with tears on his cheeks. After running back to the ele vator he pushes the bottom but ton again. The doors slide open. This time a mother with a small baby gets out. The doors close behind him and open again on the basement floor. As he stands on the top of a flight of stairs he watches jani tors shovel coal from a pile. The steps feel cool on his legs as he sits there waiting. While holding back sobs frightening thoughts run through his little head. All the while his parents, aunt and uncle search frantically through the building. The elevator doors at the top of the steps open. His face turns to smiles as he falls in the out- stretcher arms of his uncle. The whole family once again gets in the elevator with a little boy not quite so courageous. Intellectuals Are Changing/ Nettleton Shoes Are Out By Richard Ransley It used to be that intellectuals were outcasts of society only fit to carry lettermen’s books. But recently the trend has been re versed, and the intellectual has gained new status in teenage cul ture. By following a few basic rules any student can now be- Parents Big Problems; Make World Decisions By Gary Wegner In the lives of every American teenager can be found a complex, hard to deal with, and otherwise impossible human being. Yes, I said human, and this human hap pens to be the American parent. Yes, parents are human, and sometimes they are required to make some earth shaking deci sions. Dad, being a, male, is con sidered supreme head of the household and therefore is re quired to make all big decisions Names Change Person’s Character By Ramona Curtis, Jr. As I sit in class, listening with half an ear to my teacher, I am working with names of our Sen iors. I wonder what would be produced if I turned the names around and looked for their deep or hidden meanings. Take a look at some of these: McMahon Terry sounds like a desperado who stole somebody’s grade book. Maybe his accom plice was Austin Mark from, down Texas way. Batman’s Ward Red may have to fight the Nickell David by himself as Carpenter Jack is keeping the masked wonder busy helping him build a new Batmo- bile. A swingin’ character is Hipps Mike. This guy is really with it. He’s the BMOC. He may be working against Hood Bob who has the worst reputation on cam pus. Gallimore Ronnie and Knight Susan are in quest of great ad venture. Maybe they might do well to follow the footsteps of King Linda. Stahl Martha must be a trick used when a guy has made two dates for the same night, or Lynch Nancy may be the other alternative. One or the other of these girls may have Schott Mark for being a two-timer. Shooting him might Payne Cameron though Nowadays one might see Cole man Joe the ice cream man, talk ing to Early Martha who’s al ways the first one to his truck. And last but not least is Wea ver Curtis who has tied the loose ends together so I can go to break to think of more people to whom I may point my bony finger. such as who takes out the gar bage. Mom, not to be left out, is taxed with such minor decisions as whether Red China should be admitted to the U.N. or should the US. remain in Viet Nanq. Even with all the pressures and responsibilities, parents can some times be very understanding. Take, for instance, the time you came in two hours after your curfew. Were Mom and Dad wait ing for you? No, they figured you got lost in East Guam. Most of the time, however, par ents give their little lectures, in which they contrast life now with life in their day. Parents are forever telling teenagers how much better off they are today than teens were forty years ago. These years are the toughest years of their lives, because they are engaged in a process of con tinual worry over such matters as whether Johnny will get the car home with all four fenders intact. So teenagers remember that this is a trying time that your parents are undergoing. Parents are actually great people and we owe them a great deal. Tolerate them and help them through this trial. come a true-blue intellectual First, the student must assert his fierce individualism and dar- ing.This is accomplished by not wearing Nettletons. A student without Nettletons is viewed with awe and vague terrors by his ■ classmates. But soon they realize that the petty conformity of foot- ■ wear is above the intellectual who is pondering the origins of the universe. The would-be intellectual must next assert His basic intellectual superity. Since he is above such trivia as school and grades, he acts bored and uninterested in the classroom If a teacher asks him a question, he pretends he didn’t hear it. The intellectual must never show any interest or be impressed with anything. Because he is so smart, our intellectual can pass tests with out studying. Therefore, before each test he must say in a loud clear voice, “I only studied 10 minutes for this test.” Under no circumstances should our would- be brain let it be known that he studied, studying is for dullards., The final and, perhaps, most important rule for the new intel lectuals concern reading matter. The , student goes to the drug store and buys two or three pap erbacks. 1984, THE LORD OP THE FLIES, and BRAVE NEW WORLD are preferable. The stu dent then brings them to school and carries them wherever he goes. They should be carried con spicuously with the front cover well displayed for all to see. They don’t need to be read, but . they should be rotated every week so people won’t become suspicious So throw away your Nettle- ' tons, be irresponsible, and buy ' a few books. Then you, too, can i be an intellectual. :: ■Ml Holsum Bakery 104 EAST LEE STREET GREENSBORO, N. C. There was a man so very poor He had to eat so near the floor, And when he wanted toast at night, He heated Holsum Bread by candelight MAKES ALL FOODS TASTE BETTER
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