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Passing the Buck. In Hong Kong, sentenced to six months in jail for making bank-note plates in their apartment, Wong Shum and Lam Hin-shun explained that the plates were for Christmas cards...
...college will shun short-term specialization, emphasize principles that endure through technological changes. Oakland will offer degrees in only four fields: liberal arts, engineering, business, teaching. Every student will devote half his time to humanities, spend a full year studying the Far East, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Engineers must master one foreign language, preferably Russian, and all seniors will take a "great issues" course together...
...begin to pay for new buildings. It could not keep teachers in the state during the changeover, or raise salaries high enough to attract new ones, or curb grafters with paws in the poorly policed tuition-grant till. What Little Rock also proved last year is that new industries shun a community that closes public schools; not a single one set up shop; only six firms (including two moving companies) reported higher earnings...
...Meat, The Second Tree from the Corner) is more than qualified to add his own exhortations to the professor's lecture. Some of White's Strunkian reminders: Do not overwrite. Do not overstate. Do not explain too much. Avoid fancy words. Revise and rewrite. Perhaps above all, shun the modern euphoria of Old Spontaneous Me ("Stay out of the act"). To White, style cannot be separated from sense: "The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one . . . Young writers often suppose that style...
...quality from all walks of life. There will be no automobiles, no roulette wheels, no honky-tonks." What "Hunty" Hartford wanted most to create was "an atmosphere of cultural enjoyment.'' It seemed a pity that his latest good work will be located on grounds that some may shun for esthetic reasons: good old Hog Island...