Word: distinguisher
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...with full back pay. Whereupon the moviemakers timidly but firmly point the obvious moral: in time of ideological war, when it is perhaps essential for the populace to be armed with intellectual weapons, there are bound to be some casualties. There might be fewer if people would learn to distinguish between responsible sentries and vengeful snipers, between democracy's careful sergeants and its trigger-happy fools...
Hook adds that "It is time to distinguish between heresy and conspiracy...
...Thomas Beecham has drastically cut and revised the order of Solomon, one of Handel's most popular oratorios, which up to now was mysteriously un-recorded. Fortunately, he has left in the wonderful choruses which distinguish the work. The soloists are capable and the balance and recording are smooth. If you aren't a purist demanding Solomon complete, you'll probably enjoy this version. (Angel...
...This week a Middle Easterner great in moral-if not absolute-authority, Lebanon's Christian, Western-minded Foreign Minister Charles Malik (dubbed "the good Malik" to distinguish him from his onetime U.N. colleague, Russia's Jacob Malik) planned Washington conferences with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Next month, to discuss military assistance, will come Crown Prince Abdul Illah, who held the throne of Iraq as regent for his nephew Feisal, has stayed on as young (21) Feisal's adviser. In April will appear the erring, independent son of Communism, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito...
...cold," as apparently a number have. Nevertheless they say that every cloud has a silver lining. For instance, President Jordan has announced that Radcliffe girls are making higher marks than ever. And some nuclear physicists at Columbia have discovered for the first time that it is possible to distinguish between a reflection and the real thing, or to tell one's right hand from his left, or something of that kind. At any rate, it's reassuring to know that the physical sciences continue to make progress. Even more reassuring, however, has been the recent announcement of the latest proposals...