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...gives good reasons for his support of federal aid to education and discusses the various "formulae" for providing it intelligently and without passion. In fact, only two of the program-proposing articles are really disappointing: "Anatomy of a Victory" because it is almost inherently pointless as a post-election-mortem of Ohio, and "An Economic Alternative for the GOP" because, although potentially interesting enough, it only rambles tediously in sketchy recapitulation of the books of Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler...
...scientist, you know," he said. "I knew nothing about it except that it was a device of some kind to produce a very big explosion." Washington, Attlee insisted, had not kept him fully informed. "But," he added, sucking on his pipe, "that is a kind of post-mortem thought...
...other extreme, for it emphasized the somberness of the text at the expense of its pain. Accompanist Marian Whitney was wooden and occasionally bumbling. The solo varied from Lila Woodruff's supple Vidit suum dulcem natum to Sharon Price's tentative, poorly-pitched Fac, ut portem Christic mortem; Gay Sa'adah and Phyllis Sogg performed quite capably...
...more unique suggestions is that of Sanford A. Lakoff, assistant professor of Government. The present student-faculty ratio, Lakoff says, makes it "utopian" to expect elaborate comments or an individual session with a grader. Many courses might improve matters by devoting a special meeting to a "post-mortem" on the exam, but half-courses would find this difficult...
...rest of his 30 minutes, Gleason held an inspiring post-mortem on the bomb, a dreary affair in which guest panelists had peered through cutouts in prearranged backdrops (among them: John Smith saving Pocahontas, four playing cards, high school hurdlers in a track meet), tried to guess the picture they were in. Discussing the vagaries of show business, Gleason asked rhetorically how it was possible for a group of trained people to put on so big a flop. "If this happened in a hospital . . . " He might also have asked how it was possible for one of TV's funniest...