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Finally wrote Wagner, "the idea that 'English Lit.' is given a sort of contemporary prestige when shown on TV backfired. Students mentally compared the teachers they saw with the professional television actors and actresses they watched at night, and by this iron yardstick, we failed miserably...
...experiments because the square is "human," i.e., an intellectual construction which almost never occurs in nature. His monochromatic experiments in form require more complex shapes, but these, too, he keeps geometrical and tightly organized. "The measure of art," Albers believes, "is the ratio of effort to effect." By this yardstick, his Biconjugate (see cut) rates high, for it draws the greatest possible variety from the least possible shapes and shades. Looking at the top of the picture, the two figures seem identical but reversed; moving to the bottom, they become exactly alike. The four main shapes look transparent...
...except the quoted pronouncements of its hierarchy. "A Catholic paper," editorialized America recently, "is not a little Pravda." Many of the diocesan papers tend to reflect their bishops' views, but even that does not always give such views religious weight. Though editors are supposed to apply a spiritual yardstick in making their worldly judgments, the Catholic press proves in practice to be catholic-not only diverse in its views but sometimes so bitterly at odds in its own fold that Bishop Dwyer cautioned last week: "There is no point in carrying intramural controversy beyond the limits of fairness...
...character displacement principle means that zoologists can no longer use as a "species yardstick" the range of differences between two species in the same area, for great differences may evolve between closely-related species living near one another. Neither can this range be applied to determine if two closely-related but isolated groups are distinct species, the scientists stated...
...today's yardstick, this colonial industry was little more than a group of independent printers. Under rigid governmental censorship, Boston's books were either reprints of classical treatises or pious puritanical sermons. The colonial reader sought moral edification rather than information or casual entertainment...