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Through grants to library and university extension association, the Fund fosters discussions groups and public education projects. The Fund was set up, wrote Paul Hoffman, the Foundation's first president, in 1951, because "education is seldom thought of as a life-long activity for everybody. An integral part of the Fund's work," he continued, "is to explore the possibilities of using new means that invention and technology provide to help interest people in ideas...
...same use of alliteration which often makes the play smoothly sing out, is occasionally handled less skillfully: "Now in the light she'll work, sing, milk, say the cows' sweet names and sleep until the night sucks out her soul and spits it into the sky. In her life-long love light, holily Bessie milks the fond lake-eyed cows as dusk showers slowly down over byre, sea, and town...
When Flaubert died in 1880, he left Bouvard and Pecuchet, his "kind of encyclopedia made into a farce," unfinished and unedited. In scope, it was to be Flaubert's masterpiece: a satiric work compounded of his life-long scorn of the bourgeoisie, their morals, their intellectual giddiness, their thoughtless generalizations...
Such comments necessarily pointed toward a life-long career as a composer--except that the young instructor's interests had begun to change. "I began to realize that there already was so much beautiful music in the world that wasn't being played," he recalls. "Then I became interested in students and I saw what could be achieved if I could get them interested in worthwhile music instead of the usual ephemeral songs...
Until the medical schools take their own advice seriously and act to stop over-specialization among pre-meds, they will continue to receive applications predominantly from science concentrators. Nor can they blame the pre-med, who narrow his sights and therefore his life-long interests, to win first prize in the rat race...