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...testing, as with the single term paper. Knowing that each paper will not count so heavily in terms of a grade, the student is encouraged to write more daringly and imaginatively. He has the chance, also, to purge his writing of that turgid idiom, Scholar-speak, a variant of English considerably less clear and lucid than Time-style...
...follows Ruth and, improbably, is able to make his way into the death pen, where she is kept in a harem for the camp guards. He tries to smuggle her out. Reality obtrudes, and the film ends as they are climbing over the fence. It is a variant of the Orpheus legend, and it is not the fault of the lovers, who are acting in their first film and are touching and believable, that the retelling is not wholly a success. But it is too early for tender legends set in such a background. One does not see Orpheus...
...testing, as with the single term paper. Knowing that each paper will not count so heavily in terms of a grade, the student is encouraged to write more daringly and imaginatively. He has the chance, also, to purge his writing of that turgid idiom, Scholar-speak, a variant of English considerably less clear and lucid than Time-style...
Everything he asks is a variant on this single theme: 1) his proposal for a French-British-U.S. directorate of NATO; 2) his attempts to shape the European Common market into a French-dominated confederation; and 3) his insistence on developing his own nuclear bomb and defense forces-arguing that France cannot depend on anyone else, not even the U.S., to protect it in case of Soviet attack...
...some naive quarters, the mistaken belief is held that spring is here. This is a misleading doctrine and the adherents of it are guilty of perhaps-handedness, albeit a weak and deviationist variant. Since objective meterological evidence clearly proves that spring is not here and cannot ever be here, the belief that it is spring constitutes a victims and criminal act whose divisive influence all students are urged to combat...