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...Superficial Scholars. Any student who has gone through the high-school and college round of intelligence, aptitude and achievement tests has seen exam sections just as ambiguous. In an unpublished sequel to his American Scholar article, Hoffmann analyzes eleven more College Board sample questions-5% of the total in two booklets-and is able to show that they are, at least, highly arguable. Probably no brilliant student will be denied college entrance because he analyzes such questions too keenly, because passing scores are relatively low. But screening in the early stages of the National Merit Scholarship competitions is highly selective...
...Hoffmann would like to see multiple-choice tests rigorously rewritten or, better still, thrown out of the schools altogether. "Even if the tests were free from all ambiguities and errors," they would still have "serious defects when applied to those people who, despite impressive gifts, do not shine at parlor games...
...appears to be no more dangerous than many another potent drug. It is used not only in psychiatry, but also for cancer patients when they know the end is near, and in some unrelated disorders where its apparent value is not fully understood, e.g., angina pectoris and rheumatoid arthritis. Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (which markets iproniazid as Marsilid) and rival manufacturers have brought out drugs that are close chemical kin to iproniazid but with fewer drawbacks...
...made by New Jersey's Hoffmann-La Roche, also shows roughly the same activity as iproniazid, but with fewer and milder undesirable effects...
...over the Komische Oper in 1947, speedily built it into the operatic showcase of a city that also boasts the East Berlin State Opera and the vigorously competing West Berlin Municipal Opera. In a kind of operatic cold war, Felsenstein's now classic productions of Carmen, Tales of Hoffmann, The Bartered Bride attract as many operagoers from West Berlin (where Fetsenstein lives for maximum comfort) as from the Eastern sector...