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Having laid down her general critical credo (to be amplified in a forthcoming book, Get Away From Me With Those Christmas Gifts), Author Wright ticks off special likes and dislikes...
...matter how disguised, Eva Marie has her best role since her Oscar-winning role in On the Waterfront. Addict Murray conquers with restraint-a happy departure from the screaming-meemie interpretation so often accorded the junky's part. To the end, Rain is true to its unflinching credo. The odds seem to be against the emancipation of an addict with one relapse already on his record. Rain abates with only the faintest hope of sunshine, hints that the long-range forecast is more rain...
...maze, mistaken it for the universe and have succeeded only in getting lost in it"), current teaching methods ("There has never been a generation so severed from tradition. They don't even know the lullabies"), once ended a lecture with a one-sentence summary of his own credo: "A little knowledge leadeth a man away from God, much bringeth him back...
Thus, in 1871, an American missionary named Daniel Bliss laid down the credo of the small college he had founded six years before on a hillside outside Beirut. A center of Christian culture in a largely Moslem world, the small college throve and burgeoned, in 1920 became the American University of Beirut, which is today the largest American university outside U.S. territory...
Freedom to Disagree. In spite of such rumblings, the American faculty feels that the greatest service the A.U.B. can perform is to stick by its founder's credo. The main purpose of the university's schools-Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Public Health, Engineering and Agriculture-is to teach Western techniques to be used within the framework of Arab culture. "The students," says one psychologist, "can't help but respect the United States more, because we give them the freedom to disagree...