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...role of a U.S. political party as embracer of many opinions, more pluribus than unum; and its ideological arguments can well turn into a source of intellectual strength as well as dissension; and vast changes in U.S. life are spreading out opportunities for leadership to whatever party can discern and seize them...
Visual Studies S-160: Designer Horace Armistead offers an ambitious course on "Visual Design in the Theatre," an attempt to discern how visual effects in a theatrical production affect the audience...
California's district attorney can still appeal, and Weaver's STV will stay dark until the decision is final, but Superior Court Judge Irving Perluss stated that he was "able to discern only the conjecture from certain viewpoints (some of which are not entirely unbiased) that subscription television may destroy free television operation. In the final analysis, it would appear the charges here made [against pay TV] could have been made by the radio industry when television was made available for the home and by the producers of silent pictures when Al Jolson sang in The Jazz Singer...
...hour when a man can first discern the shadows of the veins on the back of his hand, the monks arise. The great temple drum, hanging from its roughhewn log rack, summons the faithful to alms. Twisting a single saffron shift round their bodies, the monks move out into the quiet streets in single file, eyes to the ground, fingers clasped beneath their silver begging bowls. In Laos, the bonzes form a silent silhouette against the ornate temple roofs of the royal capital of Luangprabang. In Burma, they enter Rangoon framed against the great Shwe Dagon pagoda, its massive gilded...
...intentions tragically mistaken. The locale is Rome. The heroine is Adriana, an aristocratic Italian beauty. One day, she is struck down by that scourge of modern-day Italy, a Vespa. She is helped to her feet by an imposing policeman, Captain Falconieri, in whom any reasonably perceptive reader can discern the ingredients of a true lover: "Above all, in the powerful current of masculinity beamed towards her." The current, however, is short-circuited by calamities-knifings, renunciations, drownings and tears. Wiser and weepier at the novel's end, Adriana muses about how it all started with "those funny little...