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...handle than the visible light that the human eye receives with such marvelous ease and precision. Radio waves are many thousand times longer than light waves, and because of inflexible laws of physics, this means that radio telescopes must be enormously wider than optical telescopes before they can distinguish objects equally small...
Comic drama in Goldsmith's time resembled in some respects the American theatre today: it was awful, it was in the hands of the panderers and the dutchers. The reason for this, Goldsmith thought, was that its practitioners failed to distinguish tragedy from comedy, and produced mainly works which fell awkwardly between the two. "Notwithstanding the universal practice of former ages," he wrote in an Essay on the Theatre, "a new species of dramatic composition has been introduced, under the name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed...
...that of Stuart Hughes'. Ryan talks victory; he sees the cold war and its concomitant arms-spending as an obstacle to the goals which a progressive society must fulfill. He is convinced that only in a world en route to disarmament can the wisdom and spirit that distinguish the United States among nations exert their full influence...
...howl," Rose promised me in a telephone interview, indicating that the humor of the parody would derive from the fact that it would be entirely printed before The Game. This would, in effect, he said, distinguish it from a similar but real post-Game "Extra" to be published by the CRIMSON during The Game and actually containing full details on the course of play as well as the final score...
LIVING off-campus as an alternative to House residence seemed attractive or worth serious thought to 23 per cent of those answering the poll. Their reasons were largely material, though it is hard in discussing residence to distinguish completely between material and educational advantages. Most singled out parietal hours, prohibitive costs and erratic food quality as the main disadvantages of Harvard lodging. But two per cent stated flatly that they didn't like the intellectual atmosphere of House life. And while a vast majority found the House serving as the center of their social lives at Harvard, a loud minority...