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...form of house plan. But for the visionary this is too limited a solution. Dean Godolphin is one of the first to point out that Princeton must make of other adjustments. As he puts it, "The old men's college just isn't what it used to be Our concept of a traditional men's education is undergoing some radical changes. We're having to reorient our thinking...
...choice, and where winning or losing may depend on finding out what is in an opponent's mind and concealing what is in one's own, is far more difficult to cope with theoretically. Von Neumann gets at the heart of the strategic conflict through the concept of "Mini-max," the point where the most gain that A can be sure of making meets the amount that B can be sure of limiting A to. Von Neumann's theory of games was developed as part of an effort to understand the economic behavior of individuals in buying...
...despite the rather Marxian concept of perfection, containing for the imperfect artist the seeds of its own downfall, this play is not particularly startling or inflammatory. One must then ask if its general obscurity and murky symbolism are quite justified. Granting Arcadia its moments of brilliant imagery, and a really fine scene between the artist and his ex-mistress, the poetry is not, intrinsically, worth the effort of picking what is good from the shielding verbiage. Neither does the authoress, V. R. Lang, enjoy so glittering a reputation that one is compelled to find out just what she means. Another...
...newspaper industry, which now imports more than 80% of its newsprint, the new plant assures another big source of domestic supply. The new plant also represents the biggest single British investment in the U.S. since World War II and an effective variation on the concept of "trade, not aid." For the new mill is controlled by Britain's Bowater Paper Corp., Ltd., the biggest newsprint maker in the world (1,000,000 tons a year...
...antinomian" historians (who are devoted "to the dogma that 'life is just one damned thing after another' "), Toynbee organized history in a pattern. He treated not of nations or races or even "forces," but of civilizations which he saw living and dying in regular cycles. This concept was popularized by Germany's brilliant Historian Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), but where Spengler saw the rise and fall of civilizations inexorably fated, Toynbee believed them subject to man's free will and God's grace...