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THREE MEN ON A HORSE. George Abbott directs a revival of the 1935 comedy about a composer of greeting-card verses (Jack Gilford) who whiles away his commuting hours by hunch-picking horses with uncanny clairvoyance. The cast is superb, and the entire production is polished to a high gloss...
Something was obviously overriding the instructions provided by the planetarium stars. To test his hunch, Emlen began exposing the birds to periods of simulated daylight that lengthened faster than natural days. Within weeks he succeeded in advancing their biological clocks by six months. Though it was only spring at Cornell, the buntings showed physiological preparations for fall migration. Next Emlen exposed the birds to spring star patterns, which should have dictated a northward passage. But the birds seemed determined to fly south, as if it were fall...
...trouble now is that no one is sure what people are supposed to be learning and how the emotional and poltical dimensions fit in with teaching and receptivity to it. I have a hunch Harvard is at one of those his torical turning points and something new will emerge from the mix of classical and modern Harvard that will include the quest for new formulations of knowledge and the yearning to act out of conscience...
...Hunch material can be found almost anywhere. One applicant in the early sixties, for example, concluded his autobiographical essay with the sentence, "I aspire to become a student at Harvard so that I may live and work with the creme de la creme. " That young man from Illinois had an academic rating of 2, and achievement scores over 780 in both American History and Chemistry. But his personal rating was 4, and he was rejected. "That kind of phrase can ruin you," Peterson says...
Evaluations made by staff and alumni are used more than the reports of teachers and principals, because the admissions committee knows who its interviewers are, and can take their tastes and idiosyncrasies into account. But secondary school reports may provide the crucial fodder for a hunch, Peterson says, "especially if the writer avoids cliches...