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...along. One minute you're in Minsk licking a herring, the next minute you're running for your life."). In the next, he is commenting in the voice of a social historian (The Ladies' Home Journal replaced the Tanach as the authority in household affairs."). Throughout "Lukshin Kugel" the reader is puzzled to determine who is telling the story...
...medians as such, the application of a slide rule to the percentages provided producers the following "educated guesses": SAT verbal--695, SAT math--660, English Achievement--725. Nevertheless, test scores weigh heavily enough that the Committee places them at the back of each applicant's folder--where the reader will not see them until she has already formed a partial picture of the candidate in question. Moreover, the Committee is currently trying to arrive at a formula evaluating SAT scores, achievement tests, and rank in secondary school class to project a freshman average for each applicant. When the formula...
...eaten or refused) and tone of voice, rather than choice of words, become the idiom in which tragedy must express itself. In this. Edge is perhaps closer to the naturalistic convention than most prestigious art forms; the common man, after all, faces the crises of life with a First Reader vocabulary no more elaborate than the Basic English of Edge. Every woman viewer knows what is meant when Mike Karr, confronted by the extremes of human agony-dying wife and doomed child-cries to the heavens: "Good God, I don't want a cup of coffee. Does it mean...
...Office of Admissions does the recording and clerical work for the entire admissions process, and is directly responsible for all non-scholarship applicants. The Director of Admissions is the third and final reader of all non-scholarship folders, and is in a position to study and influence such matters as the use of interviews, supply of information and competition among colleges...
...Sobriety is supposed to be Kissinger's great virtue, but how can any reader fail to blanche when he complains: 'A ban extended over a period of years would almost certainly lead to the attrition of our weapons laboratories, whose ablest scientists would be increasingly tempted to concentrate on fields where scientific progress was more promising.' This is tantamount to rejecting disarmament because of projected unemployment in the military. And it is precisely if there are good and valid reasons to reject bans, or disarmament--precisely if well-intentioned people are to be persuaded, that these lines of reasoning...