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...court may rule that the only valid means of determining admissions qualifications is by the supposedly objective measure of academic achievement. This opens up a realm of possibility which could have a farther reaching and more devastating effect upon the make-up of the Harvard community than minor reversals of the minority policy which never received total committment in the first place...
...first stage of writing. In his brilliant piece on "Inspiration," he describes how Ada took form from a single inspired, Iyric section that gave tone and texture to the whole book. Writing the book means approximating in the best words available something that already exists in a mental realm from which Nabokov rescues, recreates, excavates it. A subtle relation between levels of possibility--in thought and in vocabulary--participates in the creation of the words that firmly but transparently exist there on the page...
Stone is equally forceful in outrage or ridicule. About Nixon, Stone writes: In a realm of discourse in which words have lost all normal meaning, it is not surprising to hear that Nixon also told [C.L.] Sulzberger [of The New York Times], "I rate myself a deeply committed pacifist." Many men have been "committed" for less obvious lapses from reality...
...heart by tucking messages into the hatband of a mutual friend who then delivered the love letters to the bride-to-be. Last week Francisco, 80, and Carmen, 71, celebrated their golden wedding, anniversary with a formal Mass at the Pardo Palace, attended by the Council of the Realm, most of the royal family and leading government figures. "A very quiet family day," El Caudillo called it as he accepted congratulations for five decades of "happy, virtuous, simple living...
...increasingly specialized realm of international finance, Jean-Claude Aaron has scratched a big niche; he calls himself a constructeur-promoteur...