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What worried Wilson was a subtler point in the workings of industrial democracy. Unlike any other major pressure group, the Reds throw into a labor dispute "an efficient and disciplined industrial apparatus," said Wilson, "controlled from Communist Party headquarters." He noted that there was no major strike anywhere in Britain...
Beanballs & Bats. Most so-called U.S. sports rivalries are frauds, preserved only by tradition. The feud between the Giants and Dodgers is real. It was bad enough when it involved The Bronx and Brooklyn, two boroughs of the same city. Now the principals are San Francisco and Los Angeles, two...
Military and Naval Science course though not exactly guts, are among Harvard's less demanding offerings. According to the Office of Tests, the average Naval cadet scores half of a grade point higher on his NROTC courses than in his other courses. Cadets consider the easy B in a half...
The Ph.D. Myth. Even more dismaying is widespread professorial snobbishness toward anyone who consciously thinks about the techniques of good teaching. "It's a myth that once a man gets a Ph.D. he's a good teacher," says Earlham College President Landrum Boiling. The stress on the Ph.D. is, in...
As for the lady psychiatrist, Capote warmed up to the accusation that bothered him most. "The manner in which Tynan introduces this character," he wrote, "is McCarthy technique at its serpentine suavest. He means to use her the same way a ventriloquist uses a dummy. Tynan is a bully; and...