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Whether listening or questioning?usually the latter?Luce, a classical scholar at Yale, had a Socratic approach to ideas and issues. He was one of the most quotable men of his era (see boxes on following pages) but, perhaps because of the nature of his position, was seldom quoted. Though he was often condemned by the unknowing as dogmatic and opinionated?which he could be?his was generally the most open and inquiring of minds. Good journalists, he said, are "vessels of truth." He tended on the whole to take an optimistic view of history. Quoting Disraeli's proposition...
Preliminary results indicate that 80% of these students will graduate-roughly comparable to the survival rate for the whole college. But Williams has also found that the "late bloomer" is overrated-the boy who did poorly in high school seldom blossoms suddenly forth in college. The specialist also proves disappointing. On the other hand, the campus leader seems to have the ability to get through a rough adjustment period, then does well. The best gamble apparently is the high school "overachiever." Concludes Philip F. Smith, coordinator of the Williams plan: "College board scores are much less important than high school...
...Enough. Seldom have women tackled the cello with such power. In this century, Suggia (1888-1950) was one of the few women with sufficient strength to compete on equal terms with men. Jacqueline Du Pré is big enough, both musically and physically (5 ft. 9 in., 150 Ibs.), perhaps because she literally grew up with a cello. The daughter of an English business executive, she was four years old when she heard the instrument played on a BBC broadcast in London. "All I remember," she says, "is that it had a nice sound. So I asked Mother...
...amount of five-year plans and doses of bureaucratic management have managed to get off dead center. Not all the blame rightfully belongs to Indira: India, especially during a drought, is an almost ungovernable country. Yet in the 13 months since she succeeded the late Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira seldom gave the impression that she had grasped the levers of power...
...what a Rock! As a Canadian officer on duty with Britain's Desert Rats he nurtures a virile stubble and seldom lets his baritone betray emotion, whether he is spraying the Germans with his flamethrower or trading insults with a grain-of-Sandhurst major (Nigel Green). From first fade-in to final fadeout, Rock more than lives up to his name...