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James was not always bright and sparkling in class, and not every student found him stimulating. As R.B. Perry remarks, he would occasionally dismiss his class because he had forgotten his notes, or otherwise felt unequal to the occasion. A student adds: "Sometimes, Dr. James would put his hands to his head and say, 'I can't think to-day. We had better not go on with the class,' and he would dismiss us." Some students, especially those concentrating in the natural sciences, found him "loquacious, vague and obscure." Most people who shared his philosophical curiosity also recognized these weaknesses...
...whom Susskind thinks will dismiss him is Bennett Korn, owner and manager of WNEW in New York. "He is an ugly meddler," Susskind said of his present employer, and fearing a misquote, he repeated, "an ugly meddler in the process of free speech...
...perhaps the most important component in the transforming of free time into leisure. But DeGrazia never examines the existing educational system in America (or anywhere else) to show how it might be geared toward training men and women capable of fulfilling the potential of leisure. In trying to dismiss the social realities of the present and jump to the "musing" that he admittedly loves, DeGrazia makes some remarkably thoughtless assertions...
...reason, commits suicide. Why? The question lingers, humbling but provocative. In the novel's larger frame the reader is forced to feel and appreciate the equivocal human concerns and rival pulls between East and West in intimate human terms that propaganda cliches used by both sides too easily dismiss...
...computer-controlled traffic light system, a no-parking law on main streets during rush hours, and one way streets. But the Traffic Director says that without an adequate budget ($41,000 is far from enough) he will have difficulty producing results. He fears that the City Council will dismiss him without ever giving him sufficient funds...