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...question was which of the beautiful princess' three suitors would succeed first in his task and win her hand; in "The 13 Clocks" the evil Duke sets a tack that cannot be done and the question is whether the here, a prince disguised as a wandering minstrel, will perish after a vain attempt...
...bright young men on the Yale faculty to leave their teaching posts and write for a year without any reduction in salary. Griswold is convinced that rearch is essential to good teaching. "I see no fundamental conflict between the two, as those who carelessly use the phrase 'publish or perish' seem to. You become mellow, pipe-smoking, and tweedy if you don't have the galvanic influence of original scholarship...
That winter, Laski returned to the U.S., his favorite foreign stamping ground. He told a Manhattan audience: "Free enterprise and the market economy mean war; Socialism and planned economy mean peace. All attempts to find a compromise are a satanic illusion. We must plan our civilization or we must perish." Laski had a lot to do with persuading the British public that the U.S. economy was incorrigibly manic-depressive...
...being uncomplimentary to the Radcliffe girl, it fails to consider for whom it is making its rules. Since the motive in making rules for Harvard organizations is supposed to be the well-being of these groups, the Council should ask whether the girls will harm the groups they join (perish the thought), not the groups they leave. The Radcliffe Dean's Office and Council are quite capable of legislating about the latter...
...place so they can fall in love, and then understandingly dispatches them on a tour of the Continent so they can get the whole ugly mess out of their systems. What drives Coward into the jitters and finally off a housetop is not guilt over his own infidelity-perish the thought-but a suspicious jealousy of his mistress...