Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inquiring reporter, once a bright star of U.S. journalism, today is being outglittered by a new performer: the inquiring headline writer. On the theory that no question is too complex for a headline-and no answer too lame for the text-the quiz kid rose swiftly from keyhole-peeping sheets such as Confidential (WHAT WAS PRIME MINISTER NEHRU...
...composer was unable to carry out Bernstein's intentions." Yet Bernstein probably violates the composer's intentions far less often than his manner may suggest. His style is neither insincere nor imprecise. It is particularly effective with modern music, with which Bernstein has had consistent success, and whose complex rhythms he feels perhaps more deeply than he feels the serenities of the classics...
...complex dead-reckoning system that measures the airplane's speed by means of radar pulses reflected from the ground. It also measures the sideways drift caused by cross winds and keeps track of the airplane's heading during all parts of the flight. This informa tion, combined automatically by a computer, tells the pilot continuously where he is, and as a kind of extra feature, the clever "66" helps him find the fastest wind to boost him to his destination...
...deal in Italy, it would jeopardize its 50-50 deals with countries such as Ku wait, where Gulf owns half of the West's third-biggest oil producer. Last week Gulf sold its half interest in Petrosud, its mainland subsidiary, to the big Montecatini Chemical complex (TIME, Jan. 21), its partner in the enterprise. Gulf will press ahead in semi-autonomous Sicily where operations are governed by a more favorable oil law. This week, as Gulf's field in Ragusa, Sicily hit 18,000 bbls. a day, it opened a 14-in. pipeline to the port of Augusta...
...fragmentation of knowledge, the grade system, and extracurricular activities all conflict with independent study does not mean that independent study should be discarded as impossible: quite the contrary, the fact that students can professionalize extracurricular activities and still "beat" the grade system, and the fact that knowledge is so complex, point to the conclusion that any advances in learning and any achievement of real depth of knowledge must be sought outside the course system as it now exists. Take an example. Suppose a student wants to study Dante from the psychological point of view. Where should he turn? Clearly...