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...Anne Schoeder made Pelagia even less a harlot, more a whimpering school-girl. Her stooped posture forced her to sing virtually through her nose and to detach each note from the next. Richard Conrad, as Nonnus, showed the best voice, but both his acting and singing were monotonous. His colleague Gerhard (Thomas Walker) lacked vocal control and similarly, Carolyn Kimball's motion between registers was very awkward...
...year on planning at the top management level, and many spend much more-but he is not considered a luxury. The increasing complexity of management, the shortened life of many products, the expansion and specialization of markets-all have made necessary the presence of a man who can detach himself from the problems of the present to sniff out the opportunities of the future. The corporate planner is often on a vice-presidential level and usually paid well. His function is to look ahead for as far as ten or 15 years, outpredicting customers and competitors, plotting new products...
...issues, this shows the student that success as defined academically--is purely the ability to deal well with these same issues. The student comes to believe that he must either devote himself to technical issues or else reject any definition of success presented by the academic world, and so detach himself from the academic machinery altogether. He comes to believe--and he is given some reason to believe that he must learn what is necessary to follow the vocation of being a college professor, or learn nothing. Such a student therefore chooses one or the other of these alternatives, depending...
Brief Muddle. Will Pasadena's teenagers, who congest the sands of nearby Balboa like mating seals, detach themselves from the herd and grow up to be men and women? It seems unlikely. Only death, like poverty or God, an unmentionable fact of life, offers Decker a vision of life in its grave reality. He flunks a child-watching chore, and his little cousin Buddy dies a Californian death by surfboard. This muddles him for a time, but we are given to understand he will soon settle down to life with the other seals. One of his friends, however...
...level approach to his craft. Other sportswriters tend to search out heroes on the field and to draft purple poetry about them. Povich sees an assembly of grown and muscle-bound men earnestly grunting over a boys' pastime. The sight gives him pleasure. ''You learn to detach yourself," he says. 'After all. it's only a game. You don't have to live and die every day. If you don't take it seriously, you can have some...