Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alexander is on the one hand quite right: for anyone is mistaken who came here expecting to be entertained at lectures delivered by professors passionately devoted to capturing forever the adolescent mind; they are indeed too busy with their own concerns for that. The sad truth is, however, that not only at Harvard, but in every school, the only intellectual stimulation of lasting value is from within a student himself; no classroom, however glittering, can goad him to an end he is loath to achieve. The professors Mr. Alexander describes have failed indeed: but they have failed in the impossible...
Jewish adults view these statistics with mixed emotions. Since joining the drug scene or the S.D.S. usually goes hand in hand with a formal rejection of inherited belief, many Jewish parents are now worried about the religious consequences of radicalism. In Washington last week, speakers at the 125th anniversary convention of B'nai B'rith agreed that, while most Jewish youth still share the traditional ethical concerns of their faith, too many have turned their backs on temple and synagogue. A B'nai B'rith survey showed that anti-Semitism is no longer the prime worry...
...part of the $624 million takeover bid by Plessey Co. He argued that merging with Plessey would bring few improvements in efficiency because the two firms concentrated on different lines -Plessey on telecommunications and aerospace products, English Electric on appliances and heavy industrial equipment. British G.E., on the other hand, seemed like a compatible partner, especially since it had already been cooperating with English Electric in the manufacture of stoves at home and an air defense project in Saudi Arabia...
...ditch in heavy Pacific seas. The airmen drifted on rubber rafts for 23 days before being rescued-an experience that led Adamson to write a number of books on sea survival and a biography of the World War I flying ace whose courage he had observed at first hand...
...other hand. Deadfall suggests that the cat-burglar genre may have only 998 lives. The star of the film is Michael Caine (Alfie, The Ipcress File), who has made a profitable career out of playing ingratiating, low-keyed bounders. This time, he plays an ingratiating, low-keyed jewel thief who creeps up on baubles and boudoirs with equal ingenuity. It is the kind of role that Caine can do in his sleep. The difficulty is that by now much of the audience may be tempted to doze along with...