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...painter was an anthology of quirks -he always wore a hat because he was convinced that the sun's ultraviolet light beating into the skull would destroy the ability to distinguish between nuances of grey; he ordered that the friendly spiders which abounded in his studio should not be disturbed (the maids hid behind the coal pile the mop used for brushing down spiderwebs). He was a patient and humorous father; explaining the meaning of duty to his son, he would recall his own boyhood as a tailor's son. "I had to shell green peas...
This is of course because Harvard does not believe in such a faculty, for the probably very just reasons that it hates to distinguish between teaching and research and thinks the presence of senior and junior-league faculties horribly demoralizing to a university. Unfortunately it does not wholeheartedly believe in General Education either, which is why it continues to count on the sudden and miraculous decisions of men like George Wald to teach in the program. To many senior men on the Faculty Gen Ed seems the province of sentimentalists sacrificing valuable scholarly time; to many teaching fellows a jumble...
...cover story on the close race in Pennsylvania. For the amount of space they occupy, these political notes require a great deal of footwork and judgment by correspondents in the field. And they take considerable skill in the writing, to catch the peculiar significance and flavor that distinguish one campaign among thousands (no wonder that some of our top editors trained on doing these stories...
...training of the officers under whom I was fortunate enough to serve. Men like Stephen D. Martin, who had the job of making schoolboys into soldiers and did it without foolishly trying to make basic training equivalent to military school; men with enough sense of humor to distinguish between the serious demands of that training and some of its more trivial side effects. Men like Charles L. Ricks, one of the 696 Aggies killed in World War II, who lives in my memory as the finest field grade officer I ever knew. A man who was as willing...
...fast-turning world of packaged goods, where advertising budgets often run higher than the costs of production and a blindfolded customer can scarcely distinguish between competing brands, it is the adman's task to find and exploit any slight difference, real or imagined, in his client's product. Says one top packaged-goods executive: "If we've got a real product difference, we could let any kid from the Harvard Business School write the ads. When we've got parity of product, though, that's when we need the pros...