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...attempts to define the term "grown-up" by the working man's or woman's standards. He arrives at the legitimate conclusion that it means "responsible, hard-working, dedicated and, not least, self-sacrificing without demonstration of self-pity." To prove his thesis Cole relies on a few random interviews conducted "out there," as he describes the field. But, at the risk of throwing doubt on his opening assertion that he is in the tradition of George Orwell, James Agee and Simone Weil, Coles goes no further in briefing us on work and adulthood than any New York Daily News...
...relevance the article may have to the issue of literature generally. One gets the feeling that Lynn did not want to write about Dadalus's topic of adulthood and anxiously strayed into personal idiosyncracies. His essay expands into a kind of literary dumping ground for odd reflections on random groups and individuals: teenagers, Margaux Hemingway, the frontier. When he does attempt to make a point, as in his discussion of the recent film version of The Great Gatsby, he hardly strays from the fold of conventionalwisdom. Of Fitzgerald he asserts, "How many novelists in any age or in any country...
...experiment as chairman of the university's speech pathology and audiology department, those estimates were surprisingly accurate. On the average, the volunteer students came within 3½ lbs. and 1 in. of picking the weight and height of the speakers-far closer than they would have achieved with random guesses. "Apparently," says Lass, "there are adequate perceptual clues in the voice, which reflect, to some extent, the physical features of height and weight." He is confident that future research will prove his thesis. Hello, officer, I'd like to report an anonymous obscene phone call from...
...says Sherry Ward, who as senior adviser to the Union Dorms was one of the few women living in Pennypacker until this year. Ward says she made assignments to Pennypacker on a random basis and the "livelier, happier atmosphere" is entirely the students own doing...
Statistics 103, Introduction to Statistics. An introduction to the basic concepts and methodology of statistics. Students will gain skills in handling elementary problems of the probability, distribution and random number of dollars. Caveat: Students actually expecting to rely on statistics can expect a greater return by taking Statistics 135, Introduction to Statisticians...