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Final Despair. "Agony," Simone Weil once said, "is the supreme 'dark night' which even the perfect need to attain absolute purity; and to attain that end, it has to be bitter agony." Writes Professor Fiedler: "This is a difficult doctrine in all times and places, and it is especially alien and abhorrent in present-day America where anguish is regarded as vaguely unAmerican, something to be grown out of, or analyzed away, even expunged by censorship; and where certainly we do not look to our churches to preach the uses of affliction. It is consolation, 'peace...
...around this hurdle, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics has been developing "gravity propelled" models to be dropped from airplanes high above the earth. They are heavy, bomb-shaped objects which carry experimental wings, tails and control surfaces. During a fall from 40,000 ft., they usually attain speeds above the speed of sound...
...upper half of the class at Harvard College means Group III or better. Men also attain this status when their grades represent 13 points or higher with an A equaling four points, a B three...
Composer Strauss had had more fun, in fact, than most in the slightly baffled audience. But most critics agreed that Capriccio, though a masterpiece of its kind, was too sophisticated ever to attain the popularity of earlier Strauss works...
...pouring troops into the Korean battle as fast as he could.. There were two good reasons why he refrained from a headlong effort to reinforce his hard-pressed men: 1) even at the maximum rate of build-up which U.S. forces in the Far East might now attain, they had little or no present chance of launching a drive northward against the Communists; 2) with the Communists still menacing other points in the Far East (e.g., Formosa, Indo-China), it would be the height of recklessness to be sucked out of position by committing all the U.S. strength...