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...recognition of widespread protest over the design of the new diplomas, however the Overseers recommended "early consideration to improving the format of the document." President Pusey, during the brief conference yesterday with the permanent Class Committee, pointed out permanent that change would be "impossible this summer," but felt "certain" that action would taken on a new design...
Debbie's format demands attention; she twists rhythmically, counting one-and, two-and, giving encouragement in a pleasant, somewhat twangy voice. Then she calls for deep breathing. After one or two of the deepest breaths seen on TV since Dagmar left, the camera fades to a commercial...
...necessary abbreviation that the Times Literary Supplement finds "horrid" because it smacks of Lenin's New Economic Policy), for all its faults, certainly is not. The format and typography announce a complete break with the past. The text is set in prose paragraphs, with chapter and verse numbers, those arbitrary designations placed parenthetically in the margins. The type face, mirabile dictu, is both handsome and legible--a feat unmatched in bibles since the first edition of Johannes Guttenberg...
...magnum to TIME for your photopus on Florida! I regret that the format did not permit presentation of one of the most pressing problems in our state-educational quality in the several state universities. Quality is subtle, but there is nothing subtle about the continuing loss of outstanding teachers and researchers from one's alma mater for better opportunities elsewhere. The "pursuit of excellence" is becoming a rout! The demand for "rigor" in education is fast yielding to rigor mortis instead...
When Accuser Lisagor paused for breath, Max Freedman, capital correspondent for England's Manchester Guardian, tired from another flank. The conference format, said Freedman suavely, is rich in ''entrenched blunders," but thanks to Kennedy's rhetorical skill, "the structure of the English sentence is no longer left as a dishonored casualty." Freedman generously split the blame for the conference format's failure between the reportorial inquisitors-"the only class appointed without an examination to conduct cross-examination"-and President Kennedy, who is compelled to endure "the ultimate cruelty of thinking aloud under pressure...