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...plot" are excised, and "long descriptive and philosophical passages" are abridged. One of the nonessential parts: Dickens' ringing opening sentence-"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity ..." The Globe Tale begins as simply and unmemorably as a badlands bang-banger: "On a Friday night late in November, 1775, the stagecoach . . . from London to Dover was toiling slowly up Shooter's Hill...
...flourish on the palette . . . large, fierce strokes and slashes ... on the absolutely cowering canvas." In the second of his two volumes on the Spencer-Churchill families (TIME, Oct. 1, 1956), Rowse splashes and wallops his way from the death of the great Duke of Marlborough in 1722 to the epoch of the great Winnie without losing for an instant his zest for large, fierce, frantic flourishes. Little men just disappear like blue streaks under this treatment, but most of the Spencers and Churchills are tough enough to face Rowse without cowering. Two centuries of them include...
Furthermore, tutorial for credit does not offer every capable student desiring to do independent work the same opportunities as would free study under the course reduction program. The physicist who would like to take time out to study a certain literary epoch, or the English major who might want to do a project outside his field cannot study in his own department's tutorial. Tutorial for credit is, also, essentially a graded course, and the student may feel less free to explore interesting sidelines to his work if he feels pressure to earn a high grade...
...named after the late French biophysicist who tried so eloquently to reconcile the conflicts between science and religion. The award is given alternately in France and the U.S. each year for the book that most successfully points the way to "the greatest development of the spiritual thought of our epoch.'' The book Hocking won it for: The Coming World Civilization (Harper...
...palmy days, Britain gave the world the dinner jacket, the sandwich, and the cricket bat. In this lesser epoch when a ride to the hounds has given way to the flight from the pound, the British imagination has turned wryly theoretical. From Stephen Potter issued the famed laws of lifemanship. Now, from an unlikely enclave of Empire known as the Raffles Chair of History at the University of Malaya in Singapore, Professor C. (for Cyril) Northcote Parkinson has produced a combination of Potter and the U.S.'s own William H. (The Organization Man) Whyte. Professor Parkinson's book...