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...Saturday morning sectioning meeting has become another monster in the University's Freshman Week array. Happily, this meeting has a worthwhile purpose: to assign students to sections in some elementary languages and mathematics courses which have no lectures...
...bring order out of chaos. "I know one girl who was in the building for six hours just looking for someone to find a job application for teaching," says Gross with cool fury. "I'm going to humanize this system if I have to turn into a monster...
Another $10,000. But the trimester system is not all monster. In fact, it has achieved many of the goals it was designed to reach. "There's definitely a more serious attitude toward studying," says Robert Mautz, the University of Florida's dean of academic affairs...
...course, referring to the monster thermonuclear device exploded by the U.S.S.R. during its 1961 test series. Said McNamara: "They have demonstrated a device of 60 megatons which we believe could be weaponized at about 100 megatons. The Soviets probably have no missile at this time which will deliver a 100-megaton warhead." As to that, some U.S. scientists and military leaders disagree with McNamara, believe that the 100-megaton giant, weighing between 20,000 and 30,000 Ibs., could already be hung on the end of the Soviets' gigantic Vos-tok-launching rocket, nicknamed "The Beast" by U.S. intelligence...
...Merely a Monster. Wagner is, indeed, the only composer in history whose work amounts to an authentic ism; no one ever speaks of "Bachism" or "Mozartism," but Wagnerism has emerged as a way of life more than once, usually with unfortunate results. Ludwig II, the Mad King of Bavaria, was an ardent disciple, but Wagner's most disastrous convert was Hitler, who said that an understanding of Nazi Germany required an understanding of Wagner. Hitler became a vegetarian in imitation of Wagner and liked to think that his SS embodied the spirit of Parsifal's Knights...