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...music, Sills has a superior sense of rhythm and clean attack to keep things moving; Sutherland's more flaccid beat and her style of gliding from note to note often turn song into somnolence. Sills' diction in English, French and Italian is superb; Sutherland's vocal placement produces mushy diction in any language, but makes possible an even more seamless beauty of tone than is available to Sills...
...acute. A domestic interior like Marthe Mellot: The Garden Gate (1910) seems the product of quite casual observation. Scrutinized, it becomes as composed as architecture in every detail -even down to the assonances between the checkered glass panes in the doors and the pattern of the matting, or the placement of the white dog. Vuillard had an exquisite, wry sense of the moment-the quirky gesture, the sudden giggle, the whole dictionary of body language...
There are fairly stringment guidelines for the granting of requirement waivers, in order to insure the legitimacy of a student's claim. If a student does poorly on the Foreign Language Placement Test, he is automatically given the Modern Language Aptitude Test to reveal the possible presence of language learning disabilities. If the test indicates the possibility of strephosymbolia or an auditory discrimination problem, he is interviewed by a UHS psychologist who determines whether a waiver is in order...
...theoretically possible for a student to purposely fail the placement exam and the aptitude test, and then convince the psychologist of his need for an exemption. Indeed, students have succeeded in this poly. But Dinklage says there are safeguards in the interview that should disqualify those who are not legitimately in need of a waiver...
...central management, dozens more in subsidiaries (not surprisingly, Ford sponsored "The FBI" during its early years on television). The Society of Former Agents of the FBI, an independent alumni organization set up to keep those who have left the Bureau in touch with the "FBI family," maintains a placement bureau which finds good jobs for its members...