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...treason" to her own reality, because she is "in large part man's invention." Her plight in a man-made world is summed up in two of Author de Beauvoir's characteristically sweeping statements: 1) "The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation," and 2) "The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady with a Lance | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

Because of the nature of Agamemnen one man miss some important facts pertaining to the relationship between the characters. Acquaintence with the legend would definitely aid one to comprehend and enjoy this impressive, original play...

Author: By Jonathan O Swin, | Title: Agamemnon | 2/7/1953 | See Source »

...takes a student as long to get his Bachelor of Architecture degree at Harvard as the time needed for a master's at M.I.T. or Pennsylvania. But both students and faculty agree that a liberal arts training is necessary to an architect and planner, who must be able to comprehend all of man's environment in order to build for him. Some will argue, however, that there should be more practical rather than general courses in the college training, and Stubbins feels the University should arrange with other colleges to take their students in the junior year and arrange...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Design --- A School Without Direction | 12/11/1952 | See Source »

Said Engstrom last week at a Chicago conference: "Electronics, with its unlimited ability to count, remember and control ... is ... literally asking to take over certain duties which have been performed by men's minds-thinking processes. What man can conceive, comprehend and perform, he will be able to construct in electronic systems to do his bidding, and the electronic performance will be at least as effective as the human performance . . . The electronic system will sense, react, interpret, compute, act and control. It will do this using what is the equivalent of thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Creative Electronics | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...fear of Amolsch, and a great deal of respect. From the first "chewing out" on the drill field they are prone to address him as "sir," instead of "sergeant" as they have been taught. Despite periodic admonitions, some cadets go through the first year inadvertently sirring Amolsch, unable to comprehend that on the drill field they actually outrank this holdover--or so it seems--from the barracks life of James Jones...

Author: By Frik Amfitheatrof, | Title: Drill Sergeant | 10/4/1952 | See Source »

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