Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Dartmouth's Director of Admissions Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. said that "every admissions officer in the United States would give five years of his life" if he could use an IBM machine to cull freshmen. But no one has yet found the right punch-card formula, Chamberlain mused, a trifle sadly, in the Saturday Evening Post. "One wag predicts it is more likely we shall find a way to punch holes in the candidates and run them through the machines...
...ending that is both delicately contrived and impeccably honest, Author Spencer triumphantly fuses all conflicts. Her American mother and daughter have dignity and grace, and if the absent Mr. Johnson runs to formula, he is at least understandable. For once, Europeans and Americans face each other in credible postures, described in writing that has a creditable stance...
Toys from Anti-Santa. Nathan Bond, Author Wilson's protagonist, runs true to formula. In most disenchantment novels, the hero is a non-hero who attends an Ivy League college (Nathan goes to Yale), where he is traumatically snubbed because he lacks good looks or money, the two top things, as F. Scott Fitzgerald put it. Lacking popularity, the non-hero decides to be different (Nathan wants to be an artist), but he invariably deserts his goal and runs rabbit-scared for life's lettuce (Nathan becomes a cartoonist and creates a Chaplinesque tramp called "Rollo the Magnificent...
...laughter to a commendable degree of tension. Where the heroine of an Alfred Hitchcock movie would creep inquisitively into a fruit cellar, Miss Bardot pursues her suspicions into an attic, and although the only person she finds there is a police officer also investigating the crime, the classic suspense formula nevertheless brings forth some tight moments...
...managership experience certainly should not be considered a formula for reaching the top, but it certainly can be considered a valuable venture--similar to many extra-curricular activities...