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...other implications of your article must be challenged. Not everyone agrees that native speakers are necessarily the best elementary teachers of a language. While one of our most successful instructors was born in Vienna, and others in Germany, our brightest star comes from New Jersey. Nor is it true, at least in Germanics, that the great bulk of language teaching is done by Teaching Fellows; of eleven sections in German A, seven are taught by persons of higher rank. Not that the teaching ability of our high brass is by definition greater than that of our Teaching Fellows; the point...
...Capote plays the famous writer's familiar con-game. To hear the successful writer tell it, they've never heard of Jung or symbols or aesthetic theories, and they profess an admirable ignorance when confronted with such things. "I am merely trying to tell a story in the best way I can," said Capote. "Writers don't think consciously about symbols. I doubt whether Kafka ever thought about the symbolic significances of his stories. He was just trying to tell a story...
...feels that the Russian arts all froze at about 1923. Even the best motion pictures were little more than pale imitations of German experimentalism, in the 1930's. And the ballet, "while given lavish productions and excellently performed, is a little old-fashioned. Nothing modern--about 1910 in conception...
Speaking before the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union, Johanson, the Latin American editor of the Christian Science Monitor, pointed out that "In Argentina, the best steaks cost 26 cents a pound, while a Chevrolet may cost from ten to twelve thousand dollars. In Venezuela, on the other hand, ham and eggs may cost...
Bynum, who was voted the best speaker in the competition, and Ferren went undefeated in five preliminary rounds before winning a unanimous decision from Dartmouth in the final round. The debate topic for the tournament, one of the largest in the New England area, was "Resolved: That the future development of nuclear weapons shoull be prohibited by international agreement...