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...since 1949. He has earned the nickname "The Hammer" because of his ruthless management skills. In an effort to reorganize one sprawling firm, he interviewed every man in its management ranks, sometimes as many as 30 a day, and then decided which ones to keep and which to discard...
...irrational longing for the unwritten and perhaps unwriteable poetry which would hold up a clear mirror to the way we live now. He does, however, offer some very rational suggestions on how this kind of poetry might be achieved. For one thing, he says, the poet must discard the language of Eliot, Pound, and Empson if he is going to get back to the absolute basics. Here I heartily concur. Eliot made the most wrong-headed and damaging statement in modern criticism when he said, "It appears likely that poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must...
...Charles P. Price '41, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and preacher to the University, said yesterday that he had decided to discard Memorial Church's long standing, all-male tradition because "I am anxious to increase the scope of the ministry, and that seemed the obvious...
...basic problem is how to achieve the "right relationship" between human beings. The ultimate answer, says Krishnamurti, is to see things as they really are, unclouded by the deceptions of self-concern. To accomplish this, one must be "empty" of all preconceptions and all teachers, even religious ones: "Discard all theologies and all belief . . . The whole principle that someone else knows and you do not know, that the one who knows is going to teach you." Though he disowns the title, Krishnamurti is a guru whose message would end all gurus...
...nurse is trained to do all in her power to save a premature infant, no matter how defective or fragile it may be. When a fetus is aborted, however, a nurse is required to discard it-no matter how well-formed and active it appears. This paradox has already caused acute emotional problems-anxiety, insomnia and depression-among nurses in Hawaii, which a year ago became the first state to legalize abortion on request. At a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Psychiatrists Walter Char and John McDermott of the University of Hawaii School of Medicine reported that nurses...