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...educational process they are ideal. However exams cannot and should not attempt to produce creativity. The superficiality of most exam answers and the difficulty of honest grading are legendary among teaching fellows. Besides, anyone who feels that a one-hour essay written under conditions of stress can accurately plumb the depth of his or her intelligence and understanding must be in a pretty bad state...
...1970s. Its high-seas fishing fleet is the world's largest and most modern; many of its 4,000 craft fish for vital information along foreign coasts as well as for the creatures of the sea. The Sovi et Union also has the largest oceanographic fleet, whose 200 ships plumb the earth's waters for militarily valuable data on depths, currents, bottom topography and other information of interest to its ships and submarines. Says Admiral John McCain Jr., commander in chief of U.S. naval forces in Eu rope: "The Russian program to develop its seapower is more advanced and fully...
Actually, the only way to make fair sense of American law is to plumb the ramifications of one important case, the strategy so impressively followed by Anthony Lewis in Gideon's Trumpet (1964). Grand surveys usually get nowhere; "law" is almost entirely a case-by-case proposition. As Mayer himself says, "Law is a process, not a thing...
...summer's day in the back-hill country of Henderson, Tenn., it was just plumb natural for all the farmboys to sing as they plowed their fields. Over at the Arnold farm, young Eddy would hear the voices echoing along the creek bottom and he would chime in with That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine, or maybe just practice up on his yodeling. Come sundown, he would toss his hand-me-down Sears, Roebuck geetar into a gunny sack and ride the family mule six miles into town to pick up 75? playing square-dance music...
...date. What it amounted to, as Gabo later wrote in his Realistic Manifesto, published in 1920 after his return to Moscow, was a rejection of sculpture as mass in favor of an expression of "continuous depth," as more befitting what was soon to become the space age. "With the plumb line in our hand, eyes as precise as a ruler, in a spirit as taut as a compass," he affirmed "kinetic rhythms as the basic forms of our perception of real time...