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...same way he brought buildings, Sacher set out to buy a faculty. He had to. Given the philosophy of starting at the top, the faculty was the sine qua non. He succeded in getting men like the late Ludwig Lewisohn, Leonard Bernstein '39, A.H. Maslow, Max Lerner, Irving Gifford Fine '37, Herbert Marcuse, and Frank Manuel...
Convincingness, the sine qua non of illustration, led even Mobile-Maker Alexander Calder to resort to the recognizable for his illustrations of a recent edition of Aesop's Fables. Calder's depiction of a vain crow being adorned with peacock feathers by his feathered friends has more wit than force, and looks more like a bent-wire construction than a drawing, but any child can grasp it and enjoy...
...nearly 40 percent of the whole Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduate body. Each spring she assigns all sophomores in these fields to appropriate tutors; she prepares the records of more than 200 honors candidates in the departments each year, to determine whether they will graduate summa, magna, cum, or sine; she makes sure that somebody reads and marks all the bluebooks that are turned in from general examinations in the fields; and she constantly answers such questions as "Who is my tutor?", "Do I have to take this course next year?", "Who is teaching Gov. 155 next year?", and "What...
...Administration caught between two conflicting sets of promises-to reduce the budget and strengthen our defenses? Did it choose the former [i.e., the "new look"] because the one thing that could not be cut, the sine qua non of our security, was the new weapons and air power...
...Sine then, it has been studied periodically until postponed in the last year...