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...professor whose book, which he described as "an innovation in scholarship," was rejected, complained that the Press chooses conservative readers who disdain "anything that doesn't plod along the same old rut." But the Press's system of obtaining several readings of disputed works and the generally forward-looking attitude of the Board of Syndics makes such complaints rare...
Before Gill took over the course in the spring of 1959, he and three others in the Department submitted a massive plan for revising Ec 1 (their outline for the revised course was more than 20 pages long). Gill acted, he says, because "Economics 1 had settled into a rut; the focus was too much on the system in the United States here and now parts of the course got bogged down in diagramatics so that students were learning tools and not much else...
...Island's insightful and eminently readable poetry concentrates on easily recognizable, sometimes commonplace, experiences and feelings. In "The Crest of the Rut," for example, Stuart Davis writes about Cambridge, an ambitious subject for a short poem. Davis' observations are to be taken seriously; but he presents them in the almost comic perspective of someone resigned to the frustration that most students have, at some time, associated with the city: Gashed egos siren here...
...impossible for a team to avoid a little strain between its members in the midst of a long losing streak. For that reason. Dressler believes the two-week layoff came at just the right moment. "We were in a rut," Dressler admitted. "and the break did us good...
...worker rather than the employer classes have to suffer." Shop Steward Tony Bradley, in Morris Motor's Cowley plant, perceptively observes that "the whole trouble with the country is the conservative attitude of the Englishman-manager and worker-who is opposed to change. He lives in a rut, and we are all guilty...