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...that they will not tolerate control of Cyprus by Greece, a country which they fear might, at some change of government, easily become neutralist. Cyprus is only 40 miles from the Turkish mainland, and governs the southern approaches to that country. A neutralist Cyprus would compel the Turks to reorient their whole defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Fire & Smoke | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...first to point out that Princeton must make of other adjustments. As he puts it, "The old men's college just isn't what it used to be Our concept of a traditional men's education is undergoing some radical changes. We're having to reorient our thinking...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Princeton: Changing Underclass Years | 11/6/1954 | See Source »

Roger D. Stone, chairman of the Yalie Daily, said last night that his paper's action was not a move to deemphasize the societies. "We only want to reorient public opinion," he said, "and combat the unfortunate prestige factors that have so long been a part of Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale News Will Keep Secret, Suppress List | 5/1/1954 | See Source »

...years ago he made up his mind to "reorient" himself "and start all over again." He quit his designing job, joined a cooperative farm colony in Suffolk, England, and spent a year on the soil. When he got back to Belfast he found he had left his surrealist props under a haystack, along with the prissily smooth painting methods of his past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ecstatic Otherness | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...their eagerness to put the calculator to work, the committee should not let the preparedness of the physicists outweigh the need of the psychologist. The latter must be given a little grace to reorient his thinking. As Professor Leontief, also a member, of the committee, points out, his fellow economists have intentionally pursued their investigations in broad, vague terms, because of the tediousness and expense of dealing mathematically with the voluminous statistics confronting them. The genius of the calculator is that it can deal with many variables operating simultaneously. In the fluid and changing battleground of economics, sociology, and social...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weak Sister Science | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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