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...Pusey seems not to distinguish between the use of a committees to keep him in contact with the Faculty and the Faculty in contact with situations, and the use of committees to gather information. Where Mr. Bundy brought the question of expansion to the Faculty floor and then appointed a committee to make further studies, the President, without preliminaries, simply selected a committee to discuss the use of final examinations. And while the Ford committee on admissions reported to the Faculty, the committee on fallout shelters made its report to the President...
...union of technique and architectural expression reached its greatest perfection during the Gothic period, the Italian architect said. In Gothic construction, "one cannot distinguish the engineering aspect from the architectural...
...result is neither an attack on appeasement, nor a whitewash of Hitler. It is a successful attempt discuss the central problem of the thirties: the failure of most people to distinguish between the real, the crucial German problem, and the inflated (or otherwise distorted) picture of it. No doubt Hitler's demands were unreasonable; but they reflected the interests of a strong, legitimate Power, run by an arch-opportunist dealing with short-sighted...
...chaos of South Vietnam politics after the 1954 armistice it was difficult to distinguish French collaborators from genuine nationalists, and temporary allies of the Viet Minh from real Communists. The only non-communist political groups with any kind of grass roots following were the Cal Dai and Hoa Hao religious sects. But understandably American officials could not stomach any kind of permanent association with these tribes. And anyway they too had a history of collaboration with the French. Americans turned then quite naturally to the certain anti-communism and Western orientation of Catholics who composed a great majority...
...Westheimer and Brauer agreed was "very difficult" to distinguish background from higher and noted that both were used as for placement in accelerated...