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...Amahl and the Night Visitors A Guide to the Tenor of Love" both deal with the slow death of relationships, from the point of view respectively of the departing one and the one who's left behind. "A kind's Guide o Devote",a short seconds-person sketch told from the point of view of a young child, is a compressed marvel of story telling...
Down the hall, William Fitz-Gibbon, 50, whose degree in science is from M.I.T., uses an overhead projector to sketch a physics problem about the path of a falling projectile. As he extends the trajectory, 20 students jab at their calculators, shouting the coordinates of the projectile's path. One student looks up from time to time from an Agatha Christie mystery to call out answers. A young girl interrupts the instructor. He has been applying a shortcut formula to the problem, and she points out that his solution will not work in every case...
...member of the Institute for Creation Research, Duane Gish, who holds a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, contends the beetle would not have any use for its storage, temperature and aiming facilities until they were completely formed. Says he: "I would challenge Dr. Eisner to sketch out how an ordinary beetle could evolve into a bombardier beetle. I want to know how natural selection has done that...
Richard Marius (the Director of the Expository Writing Program at Harvard) paints a different picture of More than we're used to. The More in keeping with Hans Holbien's 1527 drawing of the man. Holbien's sketch shows a prosperous Tudor gentleman in a fur-trimmed robe, surrounded by his family and signs of his wealthy. Above More's head hangs a clock dangling ominously. Marius fleshes out the ambiguities and tensions in More's Character at which Holbien hints...
Combining these uncertainties we can sketch two crude scenarios for the U.S. for the next four years. One might be called "an outward looking, competitive U.S." while the next four years. One might be called "an outward In the former, a historic budget compromise brings the deficit to about one percent of GNP by 1988; is followed by major tax reform similar to that proposed by Treasury and Bradley Gephart, coupled with a realignment of roles of the public and private sectors in dealing with the working poor. Savings rates could be expected to rise sharply, interest rates to return...