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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C-(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
...twitching face that folds all over itself, Babbitt seems as comfortable on television as a moose being pelted with buckshot. On the stump he is earnestly plodding and uncharismatic. Nor is his product an easy sell. His austere economic prescriptions are the political equivalent of bran flakes with skim milk: good for what ails the bloated body politic, but not the thing a liberal Iowa Democrat is likely to choose over the buttered and honeyed comfort food that others are promising. If Babbitt advances, it will mark an unlikely triumph of ideas over imagery, of candor over pandering...
...calorie countdown on Cheerios wouldn't count down quite so far if you added Coke--it would jump from 160 with half a cup of milk to 224 with a can of Classic. But this would present no problem for the weight conscious--Diet Coke could stand in for skim milk...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of a C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide: C- (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C-a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights...
...Georges LeFebrve's 600-plus page biography of Napoleon as the first week's reading, Choquette fully expected Ueno to arrive shell-shocked, as had all of her previous tutees. Not so Ueno. Although the modus vivendi of the assignment had been to encourage students "to learn how to skim, to pick and choose," Ueno walked into tutorial, obviously having read and absorbed the entire work, and inquired how she could write to the publisher in order to notify him of several translation errors she had noted...