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Arthur Miller's arguments notwithstanding, the crafts of the stage and the short story are entirely distinct: the difference between someone telling a quiet anecdote and someone engaging in a public debate. Only a few writers have managed both with equal felicity, among them Chekhov and Maugham. Such fiction practitioners as Saul Bellow, John O'Hara and Norman Mailer have had little success at playwriting. With the direction reversed, Miller and Williams at least make a better showing...
...sounds impressive, but its power and prestige are ambiguous. Unlike Yale, where the Dean of the College is an academician who presides over both the scholarly and social sides of undergraduate life, the Harvard dean does not share both roles. The College at Yale is more a more distinct academic unit than it is at Harvard; here the College and the Graduate School merge, and the man in charge is clearly the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Wagler said the "serious" Republican group at the meeting was distinct from the faction responsible for the interruptions. "They were making a mockery of the meeting," he said...
Quarry on Mars. There are, however, some distinct limitations on the capabilities of Bradley's mechanical man. Beyond about 30,000 miles, admits the imaginative engineer, round-trip time delay in the transmission and receipt of telemetry signals becomes a distinct drawback. "Realtime" human activity is impossible. If a telefactor operating on the surface of Mars were to spot a Martian running by, for example, its TV picture-traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per sec.)-would take about three minutes to reach the headset of its controller when Mars is closest to earth. Even...
There are still two distinct, unresolved conceptions of what the Federation should be and how it should operate. One group sees it as a consultative body, a forum through which teaching fellows could communicate with each other and with the Faculty and administration. The other group sees the Federation as a pressure group that would actively push for material benefits for teaching fellows. The two conceptions are by no means mutually exclusive, but they would eventually prove devisive...