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...Three Blind Mice confirmed my suspicion that the ideologies and theories learned in college are of imperceptible value in dealing with people; and that formal education fails to prepare students to adjust to day to day life. Rather, it becomes a programmatic attempt to help young people understand human actions after the fact. The classroom situation imposes certain restrictions (limited range of readings, limited time, one teacher's point of view) on the learning experience that are necessary to prevent chaos. In the end it is simply too safe and standardized an environment to teach a person about living...
Though events pour by in an extravagant rush, the plot in fact centers on Alexander (Bertil Guve) and his sister Fanny (Pernilla Allwin), as they adjust to their father's death and their mother's quick remarriage to a tyrannical bishop Guve's huge brown eyes watch everything silently, building a mask to ward off the collapse of his world. Through Alexander we watch the movements of the rest of his family, particularly his grandmother (Guna Waugrea), who embodies the wisdom and vision of a true matriarch. An aging actress, she controls her family and tries to face...
...American Government's job to adjust the U.S. to the immigrants: it is the responsibility of the immigrants to adjust...
...only immediate substantive change, in fact, was abandonment of U.S. insistence on a mutual limit of 850 "strategic launchers" (land-and sea-based long-range missiles). According to Reagan, the U.S. will now "adjust" the cap to an unspecified higher number. Administration and congressional sources expect the new limit to be between...
...same time it must adjust to the quirky, polyglot rhythms of 60,000 Samoans and 30,000 Thais, 200,000 Salvadorans and 175,000 Armenians...