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Hyperbole rose in the summer air like incense. As always, buyers fainted, sobbed and elbowed one another, threw themselves into designers' arms in ecstasy. It took a calm and practiced eye (of which there seemed to be few last week in Paris) to discern that, though there might be news in the flare of a skirt or the flash of a new material, there was no basic change in hemline or shape that would force any girl in Duluth or Santa Fe to throw away her whole wardrobe. Still, no Paris showing, where countesses materialize to plunk down...
...inspired guess by Dmitri Mendeleev that helped organize the elements into the periodic table. Historical guesswork is harder to prove definitely right or wrong. Spengler, who died in 1936, remains one of the few men of modern times who have attempted to assimilate all knowledge and discern a broad design. Even wrong, Spengler is more stimulating than many another historian who has never guessed...
Whatever the current and future reaction of the national press, the role of the News Office in this affair will remain a black mark against the University whose name some people, for reasons increasingly hard to discern, have associated with truth and the freedom of ideas. The News Office release was uninformative; but far more than that, it was in many places deliberately distorted. Unless education writers turn to a copy of the report itself (and, considering the state of "education departments" on most papers, they are not likely to), they will never sense the urgency and feeling with which...
President Kennedy's request last week for $3.45 billion in additional defense spending brought the nation closer to a war economy than at any time since Korea. Already Washington policymakers and the nation's businessmen thought they could discern the probable broad effects of the Kennedy program. Their estimates...
...question of the size of the College first came up in 1954-55 when educators began to discern the impact that booming population might have on the colleges. Many Harvard men were troubled about the higher institutions' lack of preparation for the flood of applications. They felt that Harvard had to respond strongly to the danger, so alerting the rest of the country to it and at the same time handling a small part of it. If we raise the numbers admitted here, they said, we make our contribution. And so it followed that the President spoke of bringing...