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...Committee, White claimed, "hits at the fundamental areas which distinguish the United States from totalitarian powers." He characterized their activities as a series of inquisitions in which individuals are made to account for their political convictions...
...time he fought his way back to distinguish himself as one of the strongest and most reliable halfbacks in the Ivy League...
This and other findings by Von Bėkėsy have given ear specialists new ways to distinguish between different forms of human deafness, which may be important in deciding treatment. After he left Budapest, Von Bėkėsy spent two years at Stockholm's Caroline Institute, which awarded the prize. Then he moved to the U.S., now works in Harvard's Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory where, still experimenting, he has built a model of the cochlea big enough to hold...
...produce on tests and exams is their principal recommendation--but, they are rightly led to believe, the same skills will establish their success in college. Increasing pressure for admission will force all students to focus on these skills, and make it increasingly difficult for the admission office to distinguish other qualifications. Thus, the danger is not merely that the tests become meaningless, but also that the applicants adopt the camouflage of acting like potential scholars. Growing uniformity of post-college plans pre-determines an increasing homogeneity in those who apply. And there is not a thing the College...
...benefit of a London newsman bemused by U.S. argot, Novelist Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, 38, set out to distinguish between hipsters and beatniks. Although the two groups "share a common experience and understand each other's language." pontificated Mailer, "they're utterly different. The hipster is a man of action, always on the move; the beatnik is contemplative, an amateur philosopher. Among world figures today, Kennedy is hip but won't admit it and Khrushchev is hip but doesn't know it." What about British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan? "Irreclaimably square...