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Stumping the backwoods during one of his presidential campaigns, Andrew Jackson decided to impress his bumpkin constituents with his scholarship, let fly in bear-shaped tones with all the Latin he knew: "E pluribus unum, my friends, sine qua non, ne plus ultra, multo in parvo!" Applause resounded for miles; Jackson not only won the election, but also got an honorary LL.D. Or so says Allen Walker Read, associate professor of English at Columbia University, who tucked tongue in cheek and presented choice samples of fractured Latin in an address to the Linguistic Society of America...
Perhaps the most significant fact about the radio business is this: we work to the second, and consequently close cooperation among ten to twenty people is the sine qua non of good programing. Program material has to be ready on time, as do the announcer and controlman; advertising copy has to be changed and re-written frequently and the changes noted and incorporated into our daily "log," the schedule on which we broadcast...
Said a good U.S. friend, Lebanon's Philosopher-Statesman Dr. Charles Malik: "It is absolutely a sine qua non condition of this opportunity that the U.S. makes it crystal clear that while it will not condone destruction of Israel, equally it will not condone expansion of Israel. The U.S. should stop at no limits in preventing further penetration of this area by Communism and should do everything it can to roll it back. Part of the opportunity is for the U.S. not only to take an interest in economic development-which is, after all, neutral-but it should interest...
...that Ike's type of operation, which has been abandoned in some medical centers, must have been wrong. They cited impressive authorities. Dr. Burrill B. Crohn, who first described and named the disease, says in his basic text, Regional Ileitis, that cutting off the diseased ileum "is a sine qua non to the success of any operation." Less than two years ago, at a doctors' round table, New York Hospital Surgeon William F. Nickel Jr. said to Crohn: "One should never [join] small bowel to large bowel . . . without dividing the small bowel, because those patients invariably get into...
Little Appeal. Stockhausen's sound sources are instruments familiar to any radio engineer: a sine-wave generator to produce a pure tone, a pulse generator to control timing of the sounds, a noise generator to produce vague rumbles, whooshes and thunders, and various filters. Once he has created the desired combination of sounds, he records them on tape and snips and joins and re-records until his composition is done. It took him a year and a half to complete a 17-minute composition. The result has many of the qualities of twelve-tone music by the late Anton...