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...time that teachers and parents help girls learn that it is not "unfeminine" to excel in mathematics and that the only husband worth having is one mature enough to live with his equal...
Griffin analyzes academic pressure the same way everyone else does, in terms of the economic situation and the competition for admission to professional schools. He also perceives a kind of self-generated, self-perpetuating pressure to succeed, to excel. The situation he sees is one that exists everywhere these days, and he cannot explain, really, why things are so much more intense at Yale, except to say that Yale students tend to be vigorous and enthusiastic and that "it's a terrific time here...
...most of his professional life Orwell sought to bring about that improvement. His weapons were not formidable. As Lionel Trilling observes, Orwell's pieces excel "by reason of the very plainness of his mind, his simple ability to look at things in a downright undeceived way ... he is not a genius-what a relief! What an encouragement. For he communicates to us the sense that what he has done, any one of us could...
...movie is fast, canny, tough-minded about the blandishments and attendant sacrifices of superstardom. Director Michael Apted and Scenarist Ray Connolly (who also wrote That'll Be the Day) are most adept at getting across the quality of quick chaos that attends this kind of celebrity, and they excel at making both lucid and scary the business dealings of an unwary superstar...
...Harvard allows its students to excel in a variety of areas and it would be a shame if our athletes could not compete on a national level," Watson said yesterday...