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This scene is not an uncommon one. Increasingly, students assume the passive role of spectators, watching instead of participating, recording unthinkingly and then closing their books and minds until required to open them again at the next lecture. By the completion of the term, this automatic procedure has resulted in the accumulation of binders of notes, which students cram before exams as if they were just so much other reading and not what they had written themselves. The breakneck pace of reading and exam period does not allow much time for reflection; even so, the student may get a little...
Aside from the musical finish, it was a standard performance-moralistic, idealistic, enthusiastic, and always self-assured -by this year's most uncommon candidate, the liberal Republican maverick who started his campaign last June as John Who?, then nearly won the primaries in Massachusetts and Vermont and now enjoys the enthusiastic support of a ragtag but sizable collection of independent voters, disenchanted Democrats and even a few like-minded Republicans...
What encourages such expansive and philosophical ruminations is that the world seems to be tilting ever so slightly, for a change, toward the U.S. There have been mistakes, hesitations and excesses by almost everyone in these past few months of crisis. That is not, however, an uncommon condition for a vigorous democracy. Out of the confusion at last comes the faintest suggestion of a coherent and effective force against the terrorism in Iran and the Soviet aggression in Afghanistan. Bit by painful bit, sometimes because of Jimmy Carter, sometimes in spite of him, the protests and actions...
...year. This time out he has created eight new movies based on stories by such diverse writers as Thurber, Hawthorne and Twain. The lead-off shows, adapted from Ring Lardner's The Golden Honeymoon and Willa Gather's Paul's Case, are standouts. Geller has an uncommon knack for translating literature to the screen...
...Nice's receipts as published by the company were $1 billion less than the NIOC earnings reported by the Central Bank of Iran; the suit implies that the $1 billion went into the Shah's foundations. While no proof is offered, the practice is by no means uncommon; other national oil companies also set aside sums for undefined state purposes...