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Though Puccini intended the super-heroes to become more human, he wrote some magnificent super-music for the first two acts which depict them in their over-sized stature...
Likewise, books such as The Organization Man depict the business world as a most unappetizing set of soul-sellings (how many students have read The Academic Marketplace?). Galbraith describes the businessman as occasionally impotent and occasionally interested in creating an attractive corporate image to bolster his ego, but seldom controlling his own destiny. In terms of attitudes like these, it is more comprehensible that undergraduates should regard the National Merit Scholarship program as a sort of apologia by businessmen who regret their selling out to the non-intellectual world...
...arguments of the city planners and University officials, reinforced by red tape, appear to be fairly cogent. They depict the situation as an almost impossible labyrinth of physical and political problems. Their only hope seems to lie in a messianic revalation. Witness a line from the 1961 budget summary that city manager John J. Curry submitted to the Council: "All have confidence that new and modern construction is on the way, but until it appears, extreme caution is necessary." This sort of argument tumbles like a house of cards in the face of a singular refutation--John Briston Sullivan...
Permit me to be the first to nominate the character who crawled out from under a piece of brotchen just long enough to take a quick look at Wiesbaden and have the unmitigated gall to depict the true life of "Americans Abroad...
...sales of astronomy kits alone up 25% over sales last year. Even babies can now get science right from the start: new, eye-catching mobiles, usually fluttery birds or butterflies, designed for cradles, have been given a scientific touch by Science Materials Center with its Whirling Worlds. Its mobiles depict the solar system, with the planets and sun all in relative proportion...