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Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy—or even the integrity—of the “classic” exam period editorial, “Beating the System,” you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald Carswell ’50” of being rather one of Us—the Bad Guys—than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell’s advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes...
...have to confess to being a bit obsessed with both Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric...
...Education Ministry plans to set up programs to teach students otherwise, and is looking at ways to improve the exchange of information about problem kids between parents, police and teachers. Meanwhile, police are granting amnesty to gang members who turn themselves in and confess to crimes by April 30?theft of less than $1,000 and beatings from which the victim recovered in less than three weeks will be forgiven. More than 2,500 students have taken advantage of the offer so far. That's a start. But experts are worried that hardened gang members won't be caught, partly...
...Winterreise by noting that Schubert consistently describes reality in a minor key and changes into the major only when he is shifting into fantasy. This is a somewhat technical point, necessarily, for most writing about music is either technical or gush. In addition, Robinson has the wit to confess "that I occasionally make the music say more than it really wants to, that I have extracted unearned intellectual capital from a phrase, a passage, or a modulation whose true significance remains ineffable--i.e., purely musical...
...take other people with him, the legislature prohibited smoking in all public places, including bars and restaurants. Only 10 other states have passed such sweeping laws, including New York, California and Massachusetts--places that rugged, traditional Montanans not only revile as effete and uninhabitable but also will seldom confess to having visited, even if they have family members in them...