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Meanwhile, growing needs for housing forced Washington to prod the private builder into action. Section 608 was written with a series of gaping loopholes built in as lures. Under a loose and generous appraisal system, the builder was encouraged to pad his estimated costs and borrow more than he needed. At the same time, the government gave up the control position it had formerly held in the private firm. Under this earlier provision it had been able to watch the builder and block his attempts to overborrow. With 608, the government stepped down and turned its back...
Merely providing a placement system is not enough. The Committee realizes that no incentive can ever prod the student who is so grade-conscious that his intellectual curiosity is dead. But it has sensibly asked that grade requirements for scholarship holders electing advanced courses be reduced. In the past, the fear of low grades and a resulting reduction of scholarship stipends has been a main factor in keeping these men from taking courses that tax the limits of their abilities...
...plot, a musical within a musical, with its noisily surreptitious shifts from onstage to off, appears just too heavy and elaborate a vehicle for the camera to prod along. Even so. if other performers had spread the wings of song as grandly as Howard Keel (Petruchio), the picture might have been better...
...large, has 20,000.) While in jail at the "disposition of the executive," political prisoners are treated reasonably well. In "interrogation" sessions, however, police often use torture. The accepted procedure is to strap the nude victim to a marble table, douse him with a bucket of cold water, and prod the eyelids and other sensitive parts of the body with a hot electric wire...
...Gods Are Silent follows Soloviev's own career. The book opens with a glimpse of a village in the heart of the steppes, where the peasants have suffered harshly from the fighting of 1914-17. The lusty Surov boys bring home their weapons, declare a local soviet, cheerfully prod the village policeman to strip in public as a symbolic means of abdicating his authority; and to ten-year-old Mark Surov, gazing spellbound at the revolutionary bravado of his brothers, it all seems like a new world. From this point on, Soloviev charges through the nightmare of modern Russia...