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Perhaps the happiest of Stanford's new captives is Yale's Edward G. Begle, 46, a math professor and father of seven who once spent his days hammering topology into graduate students and his nights wrestling with juvenile homework. The nights were worse than the days. When Daughter Sally bogged down in percentages, Papa Begle blew up. Sally's math book explained percentages three ways without touching on the common principle. "It was dull, terrible, uninteresting," growls Begle. "It was so revolting that I had to do something...
Trooper in Skirmishes. Thanks largely to his passion for unadorned fact, to his careful homework (he likes to field questions without having to whisper to aides for an answer), and to his polite and unruffled demeanor, Dillon proved to be one of Ike's most valuable troopers in skirmishes with Capitol Hill. He is not a man to make memorable quotes, but accomplishes more by not drawing attention to himself. One time he did not entirely escape the limelight was during the U-2 spy case last spring. Christian Herter was at a NATO foreign ministers' meeting...
Troilus can never be wholly successful in the theatre. But it remains more intriguing than some of Shakespeare's more mountable works. I advise you to do homework at least to the extent of reading the text, and then to visit this courageous production. You may not get another chance until the next centennial of the Civil...
...notebook is the President's "Berlin Book," consisting of 20 position papers on all possible phases of the persistent peace-or-war question that Kennedy must eventually answer. In the White House, and last weekend on another brief vacation in Hyannisport. John Kennedy spent hours over his homework. Never before, said his aides, had the President spent so much time and thought contemplating the implications of a single question. "He's imprisoned by Berlin." said one Cabinet member. "Ever since his Europe trip, Berlin has occupied him totally...
...reader's ability to react. In the first half of the book, each argument or frustration is magnified into a crisis; every silence is strained or charged. Despite such emotional impasto, the book has some authority in the field of art, where Author Schmitt has plainly done her homework on painters and the ways of masters and apprentices...