Word: sharpeners
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...Lawrence Senelick has studied his Pistols and Shallows until he has assembled the whole bag of Shakespearean character tricks, and he executes them perfectly. John Lithgow makes an engaging brother to Tom Jones, who carries off the villain's part with great authority. And Sheila Hart, if she would sharpen her diction a bit, would make a perfect world-weary mother...
...call it a day after a lazy three-mile practice run; Jim Ryun, the University of Kansas sophomore who last year lowered the record to 3 min. 51.3 sec., runs at least twelve miles a day, lifts weights to increase lung capacity and competes against sprinters in relays to sharpen his speed. No longer do athletes worry about becoming musclebound, says Chemical Engineer George P. Meade in Athletic Records: The Whys and Wherefores. They no longer fear that exertion may damage their hearts; it undoubtedly strengthens them. Quite possibly, says Meade, "the current upsurge of record breaking owes its incidence...
...higher than last year; during the winter quarter, 24% of the students made the Dean's list, compared with 21.1% a year ago. Although initially reluctant about compressing their courses into a four-day week, most professors now feel that the new schedule forced them to prune, sharpen and ultimately improve their lectures. Last week the faculty legislative council overwhelmingly voted to continue Wonderful Wednesday for another year...
...Institute's own goal is to sharpen the University's awareness of such policy questions. It will sponsor Faculty research and, by a variety of other means, will attempt to acquaint other parts of the University with the intracacies of policy problems. But in this purpose, many see a distortion of the "true" role of the University. The Institute is too closely connected with "establishment" politics and policies, they say, and thereby diverts scholars from pursuing an independent line of work...
...wider perspective, a surprising number of police are grimly optimistic about learning to live with Miranda. "What do you mean, 'Can we?' " asks Florida Sheriff George Leppig. "We have to; it's the law of the land." Another Florida police official argues that Miranda will sharpen sleuthing by "getting the guys who depend on confessions off their duffs" and out searching for better evidence. Facing up to harder work than ever, a veteran Manhattan detective says that Miranda "of necessity makes us resort to the sciences." While all this may produce better policemen, it also requires more...