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...makes for interesting (if effortless) reading: and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be Specific;" etc.? They mean it. The illustrations needn't of course, be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume ever wrote...
Certainly a football concert ought not to strive for the heights and depths, but it needn't be spread thin with kitsch, either. Perhaps both choruses should help out at the pep rally and give up for one evening their burden of reviving serious choral music. They're doing only a halfway...
When the President of the United States has an opportunity to prove Fidel Castro a puppet, he needn't merely imitate the cartoonists by calling him one. There seems to be no reason why the President couldn't have announced an intended blockade, conditional on Cuban refusal to come to terms, a la his nuclear testing proviso last March...
...official," Barnett seemed to have no clear idea of what he wanted to do with his post. He put in impressively long hours. But nothing very impressive resulted. He spent much of his time stalling job seekers: "No, not yet, but I'll have something for you. You needn't to worry." Barnett had showered job promises lavishly while running for Governor, and as soon as he took office he was deluged with hectoring visits and urgent phone calls from people who thought they had been pledged places in his administration. "This is nothing," Barnett said recently, referring...
...staff needn't be trained psychologists or sociologists--in fact, it's probably better if they're not. "Dr. Schwitzgebel says. "What is most important is to listen to the boy as a human being, not to preach to him. In the past year at Streetcorner Research, our volunteer experimenters have included, besides graduate students, a bank clerk, a medical doctor, a minister, a plumber, and a housewife. These volunteers are fascinated by the research and have proved successful...