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Perhaps the most significant fact about the radio business is this: we work to the second, and consequently close cooperation among ten to twenty people is the sine qua non of good programing. Program material has to be ready on time, as do the announcer and controlman; advertising copy has to be changed and re-written frequently and the changes noted and incorporated into our daily "log," the schedule on which we broadcast...
Poetry should be judged qua poetry, not by the name in the upper left-hand corner of the MS.-so orchids to one John Ciardi for his criticism of Anne Lindbergh's poetry. In The Unicorn, as in all her other books, she sees and thinks and feels with monotonous regularity. She may be a splendid person, but she's a lousy poet. Critic Ciardi is so right, and I'm glad he had the courage to speak...
Said a good U.S. friend, Lebanon's Philosopher-Statesman Dr. Charles Malik: "It is absolutely a sine qua non condition of this opportunity that the U.S. makes it crystal clear that while it will not condone destruction of Israel, equally it will not condone expansion of Israel. The U.S. should stop at no limits in preventing further penetration of this area by Communism and should do everything it can to roll it back. Part of the opportunity is for the U.S. not only to take an interest in economic development-which is, after all, neutral-but it should interest...
...learning that graduate and professional training, indeed the whole activity of adult life, find proper definition and exercise. Indeed, though it may seem extravagant to some, to me it seems not too much to say that the transforming and quickening task of the College is almost the very since qua non of civilization itself...
...type of operation, which has been abandoned in some medical centers, must have been wrong. They cited impressive authorities. Dr. Burrill B. Crohn, who first described and named the disease, says in his basic text, Regional Ileitis, that cutting off the diseased ileum "is a sine qua non to the success of any operation." Less than two years ago, at a doctors' round table, New York Hospital Surgeon William F. Nickel Jr. said to Crohn: "One should never [join] small bowel to large bowel . . . without dividing the small bowel, because those patients invariably get into trouble in our experience...