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Behr's guide was well aware that he was no tourist, but decided that throwing him out of the country was pointless. In turn. Behr knew that the driver of their touring car was a member of the secret police. To divert the guide's attention while a photographer took pictures. Behr (in fractured German) tried to engage him in conversation. Once, when the guide mentioned that he had translated Bertolt Brecht's play, Mother Courage, into Albanian, Behr diverted him by describing at length a meeting with Brecht in Paris in 1953. Behr found the guide...
...made scant sense, since every businessman already stands to save money if he can stabilize his inventory. At the other extreme was Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin, who argued that "inventory fluctuation is symptomatic rather than fundamental," hence any attempt to influence inventory policy directly would be pointless...
...American colleges and universities have provided higher education for a larger segment of society than any other civilization past or present. But in so doing, the education "accommodates itself to lower capacities and loses its character, or it maintains its character and subjects a growing number of students to pointless failure...
This radiation problem has a regrettable complement at Harvard, for the General Education hope that a citizen might have some comprehension of the problems of science and scientists is balked here. The sciences thwart General Education, which is pointless if it cannot teach the three areas of knowledge on a roughly equal level. Scientists in the University rarely agree to give Gen Ed courses, and the notable exceptions, men like Kemble, Cohen, Nash, Holton, and LeCorbeillier are left to keep on teaching the courses year in and year...
...extraneous noises were about two-thirds Garden St. traffic and one-thirds Garden St. traffic and one-third backstage foul-ups. Hector's strange speech patterns, as elucidated by Donald Lyons, are without known cause. It may seem a pointless quibble to mention the surface noise; but Heartbreak House is not the first play ever given in Agassiz, and it is the height of sloppiness not to know the auditorium's accoustical possibilities and impossibilities by opening night...