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...Beach, 'my son the doctor is drowning!' Ha ha ha- only it is my son the patient, lady." His family still haunts him. "Good Christ," he cries "a Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy and will remain a 15-year-old boy till they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Perils of Portnoy | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...pattern. Czech artists initiated the process of liberalization by gradually expanding the limits of the creative freedom allowed them by the state. They have produced movies, for example, of such sensitivity and taste as to stun the West. This freedom has since spilled over into the political realm--till today there is talk of establishing non-Communist "opposition" parties...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: The Politics of Culture | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...truce in what O'Connell calls the "war between economics and safety"-a war that until recently has been formidably one-sided. "We've found people too occupied with making money and getting another passenger aboard the plane," says O'Connell, "or patching things up till the steering wheel falls off. There hasn't been enough affirmative interest in safety." With blunt language operators and manufacturers have rarely heard before, the agency has indicated that G.M.'s Allison Division was careless in the manufacture of a propeller which tore loose on an airliner that crashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Traveler's Friend | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...DOING the reading till the end also means that the course paper is done with a very sketchy understanding of what the course is all about. This forces most courses to allow almost complete freedom in the choice of paper topic--and often people write papers that they might have written without having taken the course at all. In short, anybody who does not read throughout the year loses much of the educational benefit of the lecture system...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: A Proposal For Educational Reform: Reading Period First, Lectures After | 4/23/1968 | See Source »

...throughout the year usually ends up not paritcipating in any outside activities--for sheer lack of time if for nothing else. People who point with pride to Harvard's flourishing extra-curricular life may fail to realize that it exists only because most people do not do the reading till the end of the year...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: A Proposal For Educational Reform: Reading Period First, Lectures After | 4/23/1968 | See Source »

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