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...19th century, the aphorism had become a favorite of the English. Oscar Wilde exposed the flip side of bromides: "Punctuality is the thief of time"; "Old enough to know worse." But he could be as pontifical as the next prince: "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it"; "One's real life is often the life that one does not lead." George Bernard Shaw saw the aphorism as the new home for political slogans: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." His contemporary G.K. Chesterton was the last master of the paradox: "Silence is the unbearable...
Academic American, which has been used by schools since last September, has earned high marks from students. Says Jennifer Lombardi, 11, a sixth-grader at Lindbergh, "It's better than going to a book because it's easier to type into a keyboard than to flip through pages." Notes Adrian Treves, 14, a ninth-grader at Princeton High: "It's especially good for ancient history and English reports." Sums up Herbert Highfield, director of Princeton High's library: "If popularity indicates success, then this new encyclopedia is very successful indeed...
...flip side of this is that while developing nations readily accept technical expertise, it is sometimes more difficult for them to accept the validity of the professional skills included in the Harvard package...
Perle countered the charge that the U.S. was exaggerating Soviet military superiority. Said he: "By whatever measure, the trend of the past dozen years is clear-it has flip-flopped in favor of the Soviet Union. The U.S. fell behind in all categories with the sole exception of the number of warheads, and if we meet again next year under these circumstances, it will be true in respect to the number of warheads as well." Perle then summed up his strategic credo. "I do believe deterrence works," he said. "Inhibiting the Soviet Union is the alliance's first priority...
...scientists study El Niño, they are finding that it is really a much broader disturbance of ocean currents and winds that ranges far across the Pacific and even beyond. One aspect of this larger phenomenon is an event weather scientists call the southern oscillation, a flip-flop-like reversal of atmospheric pressures at opposite sides of the great ocean. At this time of year, a great, spongy mass of warm, wet air ordinarily hangs over Australia and Indonesia, while the eastern side of the Pacific is covered with relatively dry, cool air. Not so in 1983. A high...