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...Orrick Jr. surprised his listeners by attacking the Pennsy-Central proposal as a blow against "beneficial rail competition." Basing its stand on a report of a presidential advisory group on mergers, the Administration argued that the two lines should remain separate so that each may serve as a framework for future consolidations with smaller carriers. The smaller carriers would probably include the New Haven and the Boston & Maine, which are both in such a sorry state that no one wants to merge with them...
...initial scene is the wedding of Kay Strong, one week after "the group" graduates from Vassar. The final scene is Kay's funeral, seven years later (the original plan was to have the book encompass 20 years). The neatness of this framework is deceptive; the intervening story is not ordered, but chaotic in the extreme...
...accepts the framework of the society, its basic way of life and its political and ideological goals (as Pasternak, for instance, did not). He justifies his criticism of the Soviet Union with this key statement: "A strong man is not afraid of showing his weaknesses. I believe ... in the spiritual strength of our people and I therefore regard it as my duty to speak openly about whatever I think is wrong. This precisely is my way of expressing my love for the people and my unlimited trust in them...
...From the American Educational Research Association's official magazine: "Much more saliently than in experimental laboratory types of learning situ ations, typical school learning requires the incorporation of new concepts and information into an established cognitive framework with particular organizational properties. The transfer paradigm still applies here, and transfer still refers to the impact of prior experience upon current learning. But prior experience in this case is conceptualized as a cumulatively acquired, hierarchically organized, and established body." Meaning what...
...second reason is that defiance of the Supreme Court undermines the basis of our liberal democracy. That democracy rests on consent, and part of that consent is the willingness to fight out issues of this type in a constitutional framework. If the rulings of the Court are to be held in contempt, the whole concept of a government of checks and balances is threatened...