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...Knife Slip? It is chiefly Dr. Varga's story. He is ship's doctor of the Ceylon Star, a man who finds the sea a sanctuary and goes ashore as little as possible. Varga's trouble begins when the governor of Port Aarif, a lecherous old tyrant named El Bekkaa, comes aboard and insists that he be treated for an ailment that turns out, on diagnosis, to be cancer...
...Best Thing. Faced with their child's deafness, says Professor Myklebust, some parents become overprotective, allow the child to play tyrant, fail to prepare him for the problems ahead. Other parents take the opposite extreme; they make no allowances for the child, confront his handicap with open hostility. Still other parents weep in front of the child, drag him to specialist after specialist for further treatment...
Tyrannous Child. The entire color uproar was brewed inside the head of slim, pensive Dr. Peter Carl Goldmark, 44, who plays bad chess and good cello, is described by a friend as "part child and part tyrant." Goldmark was discovered by the far-ranging Paul Kesten who,-in 1936, thought CBS should know something about the new medium of television. Peter Goldmark, educated as a physicist in Vienna and Berlin, had already done some TV work in Britain and seemed just the man. Since CBS hired him, the network has invested more than $3,000,000 in his projects...
...really want to shoot the beast, but behind him stood a crowd of Burmans ready to jeer if the white man faltered. Since "a sahib has got to act like a sahib," Orwell pumped his bullets in the animal's hide, reflecting "that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys . . . For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the 'natives,' and so in every crisis he has got to do what the 'natives' expect of him. He wears...
...classrooms across the U.S. one day in 1901, close to 1,000 high-school seniors sat down to write in their bluebooks the answers to such questions as: "What are the main lines of Macaulay's comparison of Milton with Dante? . . . Define archon, ephor, demagogue, dicastery, tyrant . . ." These were the first questions, and the boys & girls were the first guinea pigs of a new testing institution: the College Entrance Examination Board...