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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best, this machinery produces intellectual discipline. At its worst it becomes a "the tell'em, test'em, tell'em" theory, according to which the mind is likened to a sponge which can only be made pliable by soaking up some of the moist facts and concepts which the scholars annually pour over...
...best available test of this skill is the four years of dormitory life which most college men endure. Only when the social and mental skills are assured and the young man has been stamped as socially and mentally sanitary, only then is he ready for the abattoir, "a good...
...Sullivan. The tone of most of their work is one of wit and buffoonery laced with pathos; Yeomen features pathos laced with buffoonery and very little wit. Since Gilbert's wit is pointed, while his pathos is pretty but quite lacking in real bite, Yeomen is not the Messrs.' best work. But since Sullivan's music is, as always, pleasant to the point of bewitchment; since Gilbert's buffoonery is of a very high grade; and since the pathetic moments can be quite touching, why complain...
...ruler he is going to turn out. It is true that conditions in Pakistan had come to such a pass that some drastic action was not only necessary but also probably welcome to the populace. It remains to be seen whether the leader of the so-called "best fighting force east of Suez" can also be the leader of the country with the worst political mess both east and west of Suez. I would like to chime in with Mr.Awan in hoping that "stagnation has given way to a new vitality and resignation has changed to constructive purposefulness." Hopefully this...
Achievement of such a range would surpass the best ICBM effort so far--the Atlas which the Air Force hurled 6,325 miles on Nov. 28. It also would put almost all the United States within reach of Soviet weapons...