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...change. The clenched dictum promulgated in Jesuit schools, Age quod agis (Do what you are doing) begins to seem like a narrow tunnel vision, tempting sidelong glances at the confusing larger world...
Kline, 42, credits his very ignorance for the discovery. ''Anybody who knew anything about aerodynamics would have said, 'Forget it, it won't work,' " he grins. "Me, I never even heard of Bernoulli's principle." That dictum, upon which all conventional airfoils are based, says that the faster a gas or fluid flows, the less pressure it exerts. As an aircraft wing is thrust forward, the flow of air over the curved upper surface is faster than the flow past the flat underside. Thus there is more push from beneath the wing than...
...Still, there is little indication that Europe's central governments-a tribe unto themselves -are ready to yield significant power, whatever the case for a regional politics. They stick by not only De Gaulle, but also Otto von Bismarck. The borders may be obsolete, but his 19th century dictum that "whoever speaks of Europe is wrong" is still to be convincingly disproved...
...Indeed, in an era when new media like movies and television are more compelling to more people than poems or novels or paintings ever were, the question of art and its influence is assuming rather large proportions. Virtually nobody agrees any longer (if anyone ever really did) with the dictum of the late Jimmy Walker to the effect that no girl was ever ruined by a book. If ideas have consequences, as Richard Weaver believed, movies and television have a capacity to influence the social order for good or ill that could hardly be underestimated, and at least in recent...
Look-Ins are the creation of Goeran Gentele, the Met's director-elect who was killed in a car crash last summer. Studies of their efficacy aren't available yet, but Gentele's famous dictum--"you've got to poison their minds young"--remains impressive. A few weeks ago, for example, a beaming little girl of about a year and a half wandered into the Crimson's newsroom and proceeded to disrupt things. She was wearing a button, nearly as big as she was, and the button said "Solidarity with Heroic Viet-namese Freedom Fighters." Gentele, a Swede, would have...