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...doubt the advisers will profit from this close association. But the real problem is largely untouched. Advisers will still have only a superficial knowledge of fields outside their own, and all too often they will find themselves with advisees whom they are powerless to help. Every year, in fact, there are less advisers in science than potential science majors. As a result, the Freshman Dean's Office is forced to divine which of the entering freshmen are the bona fide scientists and which aren't. According to James H. Case III, senior adviser to Yard East, the diviners are often...
...these characters never find reality as absorbing as their own besetting fantasy. Fantasy is the reprisal of the powerless against a world they cannot change. The fantasy of the dying druggist is simply that he is not dying, even while he is. The fantasy of the judge is that he can get the Government to redeem Confederate money, $10 million of which he happens to have. Jester's fantasy revolves around the suicide of his father: if he can discover the cause of that, he feels, he will establish his own identity. Sherman is also an identity searcher...
...reasons for the discrepancy between supply and demand are widely understood. Says Jacobus Petrus Duminy, Vice Chancellor of Cape Town University: "It's as though [the educators] are cooped up in a trailer tied to an engine of fate driven by a force with which they are powerless to communicate...
...people, the real feeling of luxury is increasingly based not on goods but on service. Tipping seeks to buy that feeling -usually in vain. In crowded restaurants, in huge, barracks-like apartment buildings, at the mercy of deliverymen or repairmen, in dozens of other situations that make the individual powerless, he seeks feebly to reassert himself through tipping...
...Securities & Exchange Commission, which requires full disclosure of a company's prospects when it floats stock, realizes that this rule has been powerless to check some of the worst speculation. It has issued new restrictions to check advertising by investment advisers suggesting that previous recommendations made a pile of money for their clients, or that they have an infallible formula for beating the market. Sample advice from an ad in the New York Times last week: "Because these low-priced stocks are known only to a few-because they have tremendous future promise-the risk involved has often been...