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...words so they'll want to read." It is also one method of developing a pupil's story sense, of training him to think of a chain of events in proper order. Meanwhile, the teacher also sharpens the eye and the ear. If a student cannot distinguish sounds, if he circles comb when he should have circled cone, he may end up insisting that the President had a hardtack, inviting people to his horse for dinner, and taking his cat along to class when he should have taken a catalogue...
...message, it is this: that those who fight a war, even in a just cause, must wear a burden of guilt for what war does. The theme is great, but it will not be given great treatment in this age until realistic novelists like Hoffman can distinguish between being brutally frank and frankly brutal...
Morton White, professor of Philosophy and chairman of the department which is jointly sponsoring Oppenheimer, said, "The appointment of Dr. Oppenheimer should be seriously evaluated only by those who can distinguish scholarly achievement, loyalty, and security as deflued by a notoriously defective system...
...university should be grateful to those who support it, but it should not be fazed by the attacks of one who not only does not distinguish between academic freedom and military security, but who can so easily call fellows "felons" when he disagrees with them...
...over the U.S., patients in analysis were deprived of their daily or every-other-day sessions last week as 500 members of the American Psychoanalytic Association stepped away from their couches and journeyed to Manhattan for their winter meeting. At scientific sessions there was little to distinguish them from any other group of medical specialists;* they jampacked smoke-filled rooms and listened to the latest theories with polite interest, though they were outspoken in disbelief of some of the more farfetched items...