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...distinguish the piddlers from the real students, Hershey believes that it may be necessary to return to the system of national examinations and class ranking used during the Korean war. But he would rather see the colleges "clean their own stables." Although he is a trustee of his alma mater, Tri-State College, Hershey's philosophy of education was influenced more strongly by his early life on an Indiana farm and his long career in the army, than his days in the classroom...

Author: By Richard Blumenthal, | Title: Lewis B. Hershey | 11/23/1965 | See Source »

Outwardly, there is little to distinguish Lady Jackson from any other chic Englishwoman with a disarming smile. She punctuates her conversation with "jolly," "bloody," and an ever-ready laugh, yet speaks in a torrent of determination when the subjects nearest to her are brought...

Author: By Darcy Pinkerton, | Title: Lady Jackson | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...appalled at the short memory of those who forget the price of appeasing totalitarian regimes. I congratulate you on your thoughtful Essay, in which you distinguish between those who sincerely seek the right to dissent from Government policies and those lawless zealots who, by their "monopoly on humanitarianism," arbitrarily define God-given morality and seek to attain their ends by Machiavellian civil disobedience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 12, 1965 | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...accurate introduction. But no brief statement can convey the scope of reading, reflection and real involvement in our world that have provided the substance of Professor Altizer's views. His work is, of course, still in progress. But his perceptive judgments and forthright claims have helped to distinguish what is weak and pointless in theology, and to discern a new form of the Christian heritage adequate for the present. His work has already been of the very greatest importance to many of us at this university and elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 5, 1965 | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

That Funny Feeling. The Boy is Bobby Darin, a singer who cannot distinguish between sex farce and Shindig. The Girl is Sandra Dee (Mrs. Bobby D.), a foremost exponent of the "say cheese" school of acting. The setting is New York, but the fun was fabricated in Hollywood, several light-years away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: His 'n' Hers | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

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