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...Board will often rise to the student's defense if he feels there is a personality clash. But the problem nonetheless remains one of the most convicing arguments against the present system--shouldn't a student be allowed to defend himself when he thinks his Senior Tutor will distort his case? Last year Monro decided that in special cases where the student is convinced the Ad Board has the wrong information, a special subcommittee will be appointed to listen to the student's grievance. But in the last three years, Monro adds, no case has warranted a hearing...
...absence of the age's central figure in each case would have had the same result: an impoverishment of art through the deletion of the single commanding talent whose work outshone all others by its virtuosity and brilliance. As to what prompts Picasso to warp space, torture and distort the image of man and reconstruct the world according to his own dictates, even Picasso himself is not certain. "Painting is stronger than me," he says. "It makes me do whatever it wants...
...ranking intensifies competition for good grades at a time when many colleges are in fact realizing that rigid grading may distort the learning process...
...Distort?" "Your correspondent and your editors undoubtedly know of the two elections in South Vietnam (1955 and 1961) in which Ngo Dinh Diem was elected and then re-elected President of the Republic of Vietnam. You must also be aware that the National Assembly was for eight years the elected legislative body of South Vietnam, functioning under the Vietnamese Constitution, until the overthrow of the Diem Government on Nov. 1, 1963. Elections were held for the National Assembly as late as October 1963-a month before a group of Vietnamese generals, encouraged by the United States Government, illegally seized power...
...does The Times continue to distort the record on Vietnam? The reason, I think, is clear. The overthrow of Diem-which left a vacuum so great that 300,000 Americans and $2 billion a month seem insufficient to fill it-was due in no small part to the influence of The Times. A weak Department of State would not stand up to the pressure. The Times attacked the Diem Government directly in its editorials and inferentially in its news reports. President Kennedy became sensitive to the charge of supporting a 'Catholic' government in a 'Buddhist' country...