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...computers already in the hands of customers. Spurred by competition from Honeywell and from small manufacturers of cut-price computer accessories, IBM has been introducing new models and lowering prices. In the face of such obstacles, Honeywell executives are not saying how long it will take to attain critical mass, but Wall Street considers it a reasonable goal. The company's stock closed last week at 132, not far from an alltime high...
...introduced into an antiseptic atmosphere of national discussion, but into a society where conflict is endemic. Herrnstein's position as a Harvard professor and a writer for a widely circulated national magazine gives him an air of legitimacy that few in a highly stratified society can hope to attain. Whether or not he consciously calculated the political effects, his article can and will be used to justify reactionary, elitist social policy--a policy we find unconscionable and which we oppose. Political circumstances exist beyond say question of motive; they are circumstances for which Professor Herrnstein, like any political actor...
...distinction. But his influence stimulated no great painters in Rome, for, by then, there were none left to stimulate. The grand vindication came later, when Rembrandt took Caravaggio's worn flesh and epiphanies of light and gave them the humanist resonance which Caravaggio himself died too young to attain...
Partially because violence is a threat instant brotherhood is hard to attain, particularly during the first months of integration. As school opened in Austin, Texas, this fall, anti-black
...college. Ask them how they have gained their special equipment for their work and I feel sure they will say 'with difficulty and as best we could'...They probably will make very clear their belief that education should help the man and woman of strong, instinctive, artistic desire to attain their ends...