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...objections to such a plan. Littauer is a general theory school, while regional planning is by necessity specific and practical. In the Design School it supplements the architectural programs, providing a practical outlet for theory. In Littauer, which shuns application, the department would certainly not flourish and might possibly wither completely. Now, regional planning is important to Design's overall program, while it would probably be a dead weight in public administration...
...second-Communism-claims man to be an animal creature of the state, curses him for his stubborn instinct for independence, governs with a tyranny that makes its subjects wither away...
...expenditures made. Russia, in fact, faces a kind of international deadlock. The area in which it can now move ahead much farther without risking an all-out war has grown relatively small. But, as General Eisenhower said last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) : "Tyranny must feed on new conquests-or wither." Stalin therefore may want to do something to break the deadlock. There was a rash of speculation about just what that something might be. Main guesses last week: war in the near future (considered improbable by U.S. military experts), a new peace offensive (possible, but it would definitely require...
...wrote, "it assumes the shape of a sake bottle; on the second, the shape of a sake cup; on the third, the shape of a soup bowl; on the fourth, the shape of a saucer." By the end of the fourth day, the pale pink petals begin to wither and turn brown. Soon, all that is left is the seed pod, splayed out like an upright shower nozzle. "It just goes to show you," said Dr. Lotus, "that plants do not undergo evolutionary changes in 2,000 years. Even the size and color is the same...
...code to enforce amateurism, they would have "passed a miracle." It is as difficult to legislate honesty as it is to legislate fredom, and the best that regulations can do is to create a situation where the temptations to honesty will flourish and the temptations to dishonesty will wither. If coaches are put more in the position of professors and judged more on their teaching ability than on "the results," if post-season games and tournaments are cut out, and if sports are relegated in every way possible to the status of an adjunct of education, then the atmosphere will...