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...team learned most of what it know about the new offense on a blackboard before the game," Munro said. As a result, the varsity played a weak, tentative brand of soccer...
Before he could fit an artificial arm, Dr. Russek had the patient (who is righthanded) exercise the phantom: standing in front of a blackboard, he closed his eyes, and "practiced" writing with his nonexistent left hand. The mental effort evidently worked through the nerve stumps and nearby muscles. After months of phantom writing, the electrician said that he had brought the phantom arm around in front of his body, and could raise it over his head. More tangibly, scar tissue that had been painfully contracted was stretched, so that an extensive grafting operation became unnecessary. Now virtually free of phantom...
Then Sahl claimed that he had once taught college math, and, as a blackboard illustration of the differences between the exact and inexact sciences, "I drew a woman on a couch, and I explained to the class that in mathematics you moved across the couch and got the girl. In philosophy you never reached her; and in psychology, you discovered she wasn't the right girl for you anyway...
...Young Savages (Hecht; U.A.) is taken from Evan (The Blackboard Jungle) Hunter's novel, A Matter of Conviction, which chronicled some savage, real-life skirmishes in New York's teenage gang warfare. The film is at its best when at its ugliest-picturing punks prowling their tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn "turf" (territory), or an Italian gang stabbing a blind Puerto Rican boy to death, or the grim subway beating of Assistant D.A. Burt Lancaster, or the switchblade threats on his pretty wife. These scenes were excitingly photographed on location in Manhattan's juvenile jungle, but the plot...
...business of the soldier. But in the nervous decades of nuclear adventure, the infinite implications of armed combat have made a military authority of the scholar. It is the scientist with his slipstick who measures the effects of untried weapons in future battles. It is the professor at the blackboard who defines the dilemmas that complicate each new scheme for building a practical deterrent. One acknowledged dean of this new breed of cold-war scholars is Political Scientist Henry A. Kissinger. 37. Director of Harvard's Defense Studies Program and Pentagon adviser. His new book. The Necessity for Choice...