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...disciplines and techniques ought to have given him. If he knows that he does not possess the necessary tools with which a piece of work ought to be tackled, and that his training in form was so deficient that he cannot effectively put forward a valuable contribution, he will invent one or another reason for avoiding further efforts in scholarship. Or worse, if he does not recognize his own deficiencies, students and libraries hereafter pay the price...
...become Khrushchev's senior adviser and fixer. "He has no strong beliefs," says one longtime British observer. "He operates against a background of Marxism the way a Western politician operates against the background of Christianity." Mikoyan once said to a friend: "I am not a man to invent policies but to carry them out." Nonetheless, Soviet specialists in Washington believe that such features of Khrushchev's foreign policy as the subtle method of taking the West by flank movement, by intrigue and envelopment of neutrals rather than by head-on attack, bear the stamp of the agile Armenian...
There is, undeniably, a chord of tastefulness which beats quietly beneath the loud cacophony. Aesthetic quality is recognized when presented, not immediately perhaps, but eventually. And in the colleges, the few who choose and act and invent are tacitly recognized and admired. The admiration may lead to imitation, and the imitation to experimentation, and again, possible and hopefully, a renaissance of sprit, new color appearing amidst the grey...
Author Remarque admits that he had to invent little of his story because so much of it happened to him. Hero Ludwig's town of Werdenbrük is like Remarque's Osnabrück in Lower Saxony. Remarque too wanted to be a poet and pianist and wound up with a tombstone firm; he too recited his lessons to prostitutes. These hard times remembered in tranquillity result in a strange sort of book. The atmosphere is as febrile as a manic ward on the upbeat. The poor and aged commit suicide every day, but the tombstone firm...
...industrial ideas by the dozen. It helped develop Owens-Illinois' Fiberglas, a new kind of blast furnace for Republic Steel, American Viscose's rubber fiber Filastic. When Bristol-Myers' brushmaking subsidiary, Rubberset, could get no more hog bristles from Red China in 1950, A.D.L helped invent a chemical substitute from chicken feathers. Its special taste laboratory has aided dozens of U.S. foodmakers. Its smell laboratory, which developed special chemicals to help American espionage agents outwit enemy bloodhounds in wartime, has advised industry on everything from salad dressing to air conditioning...