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...scholarship to the Blida lycee. He had only to look around him in school for evidence of discrimination. Though Blida was 80% Moslem, 27 of the 30 students in his class were European. One Moslem classmate was Saad Dahlab, now F.L.N. Foreign Minister and often called the "theorist of the revolution." A grade or two below was M'ham-med Yazid, now F.L.N. Information Minister. Benkhedda pored over books on modern revolutions-French, American and Russian. He recalls wanting to cry out in protest when his history teacher duly noted that Algeria had never been independent-that when...
...Martin Lipset and Leo Lowenthal have edited a volume of critical essays that, by its list of contributors, goes far to show Riesman as a publicly accepted members of his profession. It also makes equally clear that his confederates do not consider him a very good social theorist...
Extremely Positive. "This market is less than six months old," said Richard Russell, the Street's chief Dow theorist. "and there's been only one bull market in history that lasted only six months, and that in 1938." Odd-lot figures showed that the small investor was still selling on balance (see below). Free credit balances-the cash customers have on hand at their brokers-reached a record high, indicating that many investors are holding back from getting into the market. Most bro kers welcomed the public's hanging back as a healthy sign, since many believe...
...temptation to discuss a great theorist abstractly, and to capitalize on the jargon which has grown up around him, has proved fatal to many critics. Any thoughtful discussion of Brecht must actually concern itself with the practicing playwright, and I will attempt to discuss The Caucasian Chalk Circle in relation to Brecht's broader accomplishment. This play enjoyed a successful run at the University last fall, and in the volume under discussion, represents to Bentley a peak of the author's accomplishment...
...stealing while thieves are being punished. The illogical basis of faith in "It can't happen to me" is the fact that "it," be it prison, collision, or cancer does not happen to everyone. And logical or not, this incantation, more than anything else, is what frustrates the hopeful theorist. If punishment is to be an effective deterrent, every criminal act must inevitably lead to punishment. In this even, criminals, like people who sit on hot stoves, will be rare...