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...Cullmann, discussed in a roundup of current European theology in the Protestant quarterly Religion in Life. Cullmann maintains that just because the Gospels are the product of the post-Easter church is no reason why it is impossible to reach back beyond the crucifixion to the historical Jesus and "distinguish between the places where the Gospel writers obviously express their own view and the places where they report the words of Jesus himself...
Admissions procedures have become incredibly complicated. The stairway to intellectual paradise is blocked with piles of papers, covered with statistics and words, words, words. National Merit test scores (used to distinguish the brilliant student from the merely superior one) go into each girl's folder along with College Entrance Examination Board scores. Numerous reports and transcripts attempt to reveal the full picture of the applicant's secondary school record and personal background. Her principal and two teachers of her own choice write recommendations--often so hazy and meaningless that the Committee on Admissions must request further information. A detailed discussion...
Shuffling through the stacks of objective and subjective evaluations, Committee members make a weary but dedicated effort to distinguish rubies in the rough from well-polished glass. "There is no formula," stresses acting Director Farrington. "The ideal Radcliffe girl is really many people," adds Dean Elliott. Academic promise, intellectual curiosity, individual motivation, and social maturity--these are the four qualities The Radcliffe Girl must demonstrate. But how she does so is strictly up to her. The Committee on Admissions has few, if any, suggestions beyond the obvious or the vague...
...Kissinger slips up precisely at the core of this issue: how do you distinguish between a revolutionary state that is a threat and one that is not? In other words, is a nationalist revolution a threat, or only a Communist revolution? Was Castro, before the inflow of Soviet-bloc technicians, a menace to world order, or not? America has indeed a psychological task in accepting the intractability of the Russians and renouncing the hope that tomorrow Communists will suddenly become "nice guys". But it also faces a task in turning an equally permanent force, the new nations, to some course...
During the middle ages, scholars studied Latin to hold learned discourse in that tongue and to distinguish the wise and good from the masses. Later, courtiers replaced Latin with French, and in the days of the czars nobles often spoke French better than their native language--French, after all, was civilized...