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Since the Masters are unable to smooth the inequities of the room rent pattern, the price schedule should be on a simple plane, with room rent, like tuition and board, charged at a single rate. The equalized rent would greatly simplify room distribution, for suite assignment would no longer meet financial barriers. Rooms could be assigned to sophomores by lot; then students who wished to move in their junior and senior years could choose from the rooms vacated graduating seniors...
...President Café Filho is well aware that all his problems did not originate with the Vargas regime. Even before Vargas, Brazil had embarked on the slow, painful transition from an agricultural economy based on production for export to a diversified economy based on production for domestic use. The pattern of Brazil's economic past is a series of wonderful one-product export booms, invariably followed by abysmal busts. First came a 16th century boom in a red dyewood called pau-braza (literally, ember wood), which gave Brazil its name. In the 17th century Brazil became for a time...
...recreation and pediatrics: "Each is infused with the rot-producing idea that the salvation of the individual, and so of society, depends upon conformity and adjustment." Thus, in harsher terms, rebellious Psychologist Lindner reaches much the same diagnosis as Social Scientist David Riesman (TIME, Sept. 27), who calls the pattern of the times "other-directedness...
...amazing how the pollsters, observers and interpreters thought exactly like the marvelous mechanical brain? A rather pertinent reminder that juggling statistics is not necessarily logical reasoning. Just feed the same statistics, trends and facts into any number of minds and all will rearrange them into the same pattern, and though there may not be a single real thought or reasonable observation in the lot, the pattern is accepted as profound logic...
...easy. Drum talk is not a code like Morse. It is actually an attempt to reproduce language. Every syllable has its own tone, which the drummer must be able to catch by striking the hollow log at exactly the right spot. In some Bantu dialects, a single tone pattern may have different meanings, as in the pattern for moon and jowl. Thus, a drummer must know enough to add a qualifying phrase: moon becomes "the moon looks down on the earth" and fowl turns into "the fowl, the little one that says kiokio...