Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves, Beberman's students solve similar problems until the concept involved becomes clear. On the second day, they work at such disarming exercises as stating whether it is true that __ +984 = 984+793. The point is to discover that adding numerals in varying orders does not affect the sum. Later they watch a movie projector running backward and forward, extract the rules of positive and negative multiplication. Then they see two unpunctuated signs : "Slow Children at Play" and "Save Rags and Waste Paper," a good case for algebraic brackets and parentheses. It takes time, concedes Beberman. "But we feel...
Specialist John Coleman has made the most of his market opportunities. He is not far behind Millionaire Joseph Kennedy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) in his contributions to Catholic charities. He is a Democrat, has an apartment on Manhattan's Park Avenue as well as a sum mer home in Spring Lake, N.J. Coleman himself takes an almost personal pride in the market: "The fact that we have been able to maintain a continuous mar ket through all sorts of conditions, including the Depression, is the greatest thing anybody ever saw." But the best thing, says Specialist Coleman, "is that...
...adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat: Bear not false witness; let the lie Have time on its own wings to fly: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition Approves all forms of competition. The sum of all is, thou shalt love If anybody, God above: At any rate, shalt never labour More than thyself to love thy neighbour...
...relative as these, there has been and will be a spate of other Hamlets. For Hamlet and Shakespeare's other great characters are so rich in possible meanings because they are fashioned on the essentially human principle of both/and rather than either/or. Hamlet is more than the sum of his paradoxes; he is the paradox of man seen whole. All one knows for certain is that being Hamlet is Hamlet's tragedy-as being himself is everyman...
...William Lyon Phelps, Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler and Harvard's Abbott Lawrence Lowell. But more degrees than ever are conferred, and no one has more deftly defended the custom than Harvard's Lowell: ''Since the conferring of such degrees seems to increase the sum of human happiness, I'm in favor of it." Among those given as of last week...