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...trademark. Handkerchiefs, sweatshirts and blouses decorated with his shaggy countenance are popular in half a dozen countries. French schoolgirls hang his photo in their boudoirs alongside those of movie idols, and students at the London School of Economics now greet each other with the salutation "Che." Peruvian grammar-school children hold hands, dance in a circle and chant a new nursery rhyme: "With a knife and a spoon, long live Che Guevara...
Nonsense Protein? Increasingly, researchers at the conference tended to make a sharp distinction between long-and short-term memory-in other words, the difference between a man's ability to remember a poem learned in grammar school and his inability, for the life of him, to remember the name of the fellow he met at lunch yesterday. Sweden's Dr. Hydén felt that the creation of protein (as in pigeons, rats and goldfish) is essential to man's formation of long-term memories. Human brain cells, said Hydén, seldom divide and replace themselves...
Sponsors of the proposal wrote that "most Negroes are now caught up in a vicious cycle. In the case of education they are condemned to inadequate grammar and secondary schools. As a result, they do not attend the better colleges in sufficient numbers and are under-represented in graduate schools. This situation means that there is a continuing luck of black professionals, lawyers, doctors...
...criticism at large on radio has won Newman a Peabody Award and i television he has unburdened himself on everything from the declining grammar of the New York Times I he English is not always fit to print") to Charles de Gaulle's crude meddling in Canadian politics ("To put it kindly, he may be losing his grip") to the cliches of sportscasters (Roger Mans, according to a Newman parody, "swings a once potent mace but is still patrolling the outer garden with his ancient skill"). His architectural critique of the late New York World's Fair noted...
...teaching at Shaw is a peculiar combination of old-fashioned educational philosophy and experimental new methods. Miss Watson, the formidable head of the English department, stubbornly defends her course in transformational grammar (a type of semantic analysis used in computer science). The subject baffles other members of the department, and gives considerable trouble to students who cannot yet distinguish between adjectives and verbs. But no one graduates who has not passed the course. Many students are taking it the second and third time; the failure rate is high even for Shaw...