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There is still a faint glimmer of hope that Harvard might land in a three-way tie for the league title, if Princeton pulls off a miracle and somehow manages to beat Cornell. The prospect should be discussed in hushed tones only; if it occurs, tour wrestling since Jacob took on the angel...
...there is a glimmer of hope that New Jersey may be about to create a meaningful system of public higher education. Presently, the system consists of Rutgers University with 12,257 full-time students, one college of engineering in Newark, and six obscure state colleges, each with about 3,000 students-nearly all enrolled in teacher training. Buoyed by his smashing reelection, Governor Richard Hughes hopes to get legislative approval of an income tax that will produce $180 million a year, spend $30 million of it on higher education. At the same time, a broadly based citizens' committee headed...
Suggesting the glimmer of a détente, French Phenomenologist Paul Ricoeur now teaches a course in linguistic analysis at the University of Paris. Yale's John Wild recently published an article suggesting that the lebenswelt, the "life world" of experience that phenomenology investigates, is the world of "ordinary language" that the linguistic philosophers are studying...
...Married Woman there is a glimmer of satiric purpose, not only in the pronouncements of the doctor who tells Charlotte she is pregnant (what he says is abridged to gibberish), but also is the charming speech by Charlotte's young son, who gravely lisps detailed instructions for doing something whose exact nature is never specified. Yet the satire is no clue to what Godard thinks of his characters' emotions or their moral situation; it only shows that he, like any sensible audience, has doubts about their intelligence...
...traffic experience on a bad day can make it seem that the U.S. is well on its way to hell on wheels, that the nation faces an infinite problem. But a different experience, such as speeding through a rainy night on a broad new highway, might give a glimmer of a truer judgment: the strong and affluent U.S. can conquer traffic congestion-and is well along the road toward doing...