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Britain and the U.S. were urged last week to join in a massive drive to export one of their most precious natural resources : the English language. As a "truly universal language," said Sir David Eccles, Britain's Minister of Education, English could become "a great instrument for the creation of one world...
Clearly, something is out of . Three factors seem to enticements to graduate study: struggle, the College's scholasticism, and--perhaps important and certainly the -- the iconoclastic, disrespectful attitude of the body. This state of surely a most precious part of the Harvard experience, but its consequences for life in the outside world painful to endure...
...climate in which the lives and thrives at may be the factor that militates against satisfaction in . Harvard's absolute freedom , thought, and action is for at once a weighty and a precious, irretrievable
...balance tests, and exercise with a thick rubber band. But on the first orbit Carpenter began maneuvering the capsule by the "fly-by-wire" system, a semiautomatic device something like power steering on an automobile. As a result, he fell behind in his experiments, and began using up precious hydrogen peroxide, the fuel that is ejected as a gas to turn the capsule in flight. Says one Mercury official: "These guys all want to wobble the stick, and that's where the damn fuel goes." Balloon Bust. Little things kept going wrong. Passing over Nigeria, the temperature in Carpenter...
Thurgus the Turgid. Nabokov, of course, does this sort of turn spectacularly well. Solemnly the lardwit betrays himself, reporting that Shade's friendship "was the more precious for its tenderness being intentionally concealed." But as the reader reads Kinbote's line-by-line commentary on the poem, he sees that the annotator is afflicted with something more than boobery. Sanely or not, Kinbote has it firmly in his head that he is the deposed king of "a distant northern land" called Zembla, and that he was known to his adoring subjects as Charles the Beloved, son of Alfin...