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Newman has found prepositions especially unruly. There are about 25 of them, and their meanings overlap irrationally. The preposition through has at least 13 meanings. It can mean by use of (to speak through an interpreter) and finished with (through with work). Newman proposes to replace unruly prepositions with new Ruly terms that have single meanings. Howby, for instance, will mean mode of proximate cause. Sometimes it will replace by (take by force), or with (to kill with kindness), or through (to cure through surgery). But it will always have the same basic meaning, so that even the most literal...
...other examples range from brainwashing techniques of the Chinese Communists to the more beneficent therapies of a Californian penal system. In Brave New World Huxley had his director of Hatcheries and Conditioning use a technique called hypnopaedia, by which subjects got moral training during sleep. In 1957 the warden of the Woodland Road Camp of Tulare County, Calif, was doing just that. With pillow loudspeakers, the warden was able to reach certain delinquents in their sleep, and from a phonograph in his office counsel them to be good. The black arts of hypnosis, subliminal commercials and so on are becoming...
...College needs a student union--like those on many mid-Western campuses--to provide space for Harvard-Radcliffe student groups, Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House, said last night. "We cannot allow these organizations to use the Houses for their meetings because we don't have sufficient room," he explained...
...alcohol will have a more potent effect on 'Cliffies if they drink it on their side of the common rather than on this. If Radcliffe is as much afraid of becoming absorbed into Harvard as she generally appears to be, she might well make it pleasant for girls to use her buildings, before the 'Cliffe becomes little more than a boarding house for wallflowers...
...thing about Ravenel that impressed Yovicsin most was his determination to learn. "This determination has led him to drive himself in his work, both on and off the field. He puts it to good use. He has a good background, he's a thinker and he makes the team feel, 'we can move.' He has poise, confidence in himself, and he radiates this confidence to his players." And he always manages to fall forward, the junior quarterback noted...