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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...
Brave New World Revisited, by Aldous Huxley. One of the 20th century's brightest gloomologers decides that fact has caught up with his 1932 horror fiction...
...independent-minded fellow Brahmin. Characteristically, Adams says not a word of wife or marriage in the Education, possibly because the twelve-year idyll was to end in Marian's suicide after her father's death. But until then Henry Adams basked in the reflected glow of the brightest and most exclusive salon keeper of the Washington of the late...
Brave New World Revisited, by Aldous Huxley. One of the 20th century's brightest gloomologers decides that fact has already caught up with his 1932 horror fiction, what with subliminal commercials, wholesale tranquilization, and the threat of much too well-bred man crowding himself off his own planet...
...Brightest earnings of all were reported by Chicago's Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., which started out as a manufacturer of pool tables and later bowling alleys. It has diversified under President B. E. ("Ted") Bensinger, great-grandson of John M. Brunswick, the Swiss immigrant cabinetmaker who founded the company...