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...Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Sullivan's trip to Portugal, first shown in March 1959, covers the country from the university city of Coimbra to the fish wharves of Nazaré. Much of the talent is Portuguese, plus such inexact descendants of Vasco da Gama as Maurice Chevalier...
...free society. Though we employed every device known to assist us in selecting the ... young women best fitted for education at the hands of this great faculty, it must none the less be confessed that the Admissions Committee is moved by intangibles and is influenced by very inexact criteria...
More and more U.S. doctors are resorting to just such callous measures, as they learn a bitter lesson: medicine is an inexact science, but there is little room for error as far as the courts are concerned. One in every seven U.S. physicians, says the American Medical Association, has been sued for giving treatment that a court may decide is contrary to accepted rules and injurious to the patient. Last year alone, 6,000 doctors were sued. Jury awards in malpractice suits have nearly trebled since 1950; lawyers' fees, court costs, damages and out-of-court settlements in last...
From the beginning, from the time when the Loeb Drama Center was first announced as a projects, they have contended hotly over what its purpose and practices should be. On this subject, it would be inexact to say there are two schools of thought; there are two hundred...
British Novelist Spark has been compared to Evelyn Waugh, but the comparison is inexact: she is, in fact, a kind of welfare state Jane Austen, a novelist in whose hands the commonplace becomes mysteriously implausible, the routine eerily irrational. Unlike the scheming septuagenarians of her earlier novel, Memento Mori, the inhabitants of Peckham Rye are so determinedly average that they lack even the capacity to sin grandly. When Mr. Vincent Druce, the managing director of a small textile firm, visits his secretary, Miss Merle Coverdale, to make love to her in the evening, their activity is as carefully calculated...