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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it is pretty obvious that the vague generality is the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it so obvious? As a matter of fact, it isn't so obvious, but rather just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...single activity as a great freshman problem. One sophomore, after completing a very non-academic freshman year, said last year. I got so involved with the radio station that after a few months there was no perspective left in my daily life; I wanted to give it up and start living again. "A freshman who had spent much of the year "working" (i.e., studying) declared, "I finally realized two cardinal rules about working: first, all the assigned work in courses can't be finished: second, grades don't increase proportionately to the hours spent." Once these rules are accepted, most...
...areas ( with such titles as " Chaos and Collapse " and " A Wing and a Prayer "), each in turn split among books " Recommended, " " Critical, " " Assumed, " " Incidental, " and " Basic. " Professor Pompadour introduced many variations upon this theme, but the most successful was his habit of withdrawing all books from Widener at the start of each term and relocating them to his home in greater Belmont...
Members receive, free of charge, an I.S.A.D.P.M. identification card decorated with a red slingshot, symbolic of David's battle with Goliath. They also get a year's subscription to Matusow's anticomputer newsletter, which he plans to start publishing soon. For 6s., they can get a copy of his 125-page The Beast of Business, a handbook of guerrilla tactics for computer haters that might have been conceived by Che Guevara...
...Catoosa, from which they expect to ship oil field machinery destined for Europe. Arkansas grain distributors, who export 40% of the 100 million bushels of grain that the state produces annually, plan to switch from rail to barges in order to get the grain to New Orleans for the start of the ocean voyage. Some residents of northern Alabama even foresee a role for the barge ships in the U.S. space program. If a projected canal is built, they expect space vehicles made by Wernher von Braun's team at Huntsville to be floated by barge to Mobile...