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Though he warned at the outset that comparative education is "a tricky and dangerous field" and stressed that "education is not an exportable commodity," Conant said that American and European universities both face the problems of streamlining professional courses of study that are becoming longer and longer...
...accomplish all this, the movie adopts from the outset an air of unreality. It begins as a silent movie, and uses throughout a collection of cinematic tricks--characters addressing the camera, stopped action ,sar-castic narration--to preserve this sense of unreality, in which absurdities are not only acceptable, but common place...
...outset, it looked like typical Crimson basketball: miserable. When the game was only 4:53 old, Cardinal senior Paul Brands--a magician with a basketball--had given Wesleyan a comfortable 14-5 lead. Brands scored 12 of the 14 points, driving through the Crimson man-to-man, defense repeatedly. He didn't miss a shot until midway in the third quarter...
Preston finally rejects all the proposed scripts, and his studio in effect tells him to write it himself or drop dead. When at the outset of Act III, he does produce a good script, he basks in a few short moments of glory until his fraud is discovered: he stole the story from a Shirley Temple movie on the Late Show. At precisely this point the humor drains out of Nobody Loves an Albatross, for the audience begins to realize just how pathetic Preston is. His friends all deliver homilies to the effect that honesty is the best policy...
...From the outset they eschew the political scientist's concern with institutions alone and concentrate instead on "the large forces that determine the content of policy." They realize that policy decisions arise not from technical considerations but from conflict among interests, ideologies, values, and prejudices. This conflict and the management of it constitute the political process...