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...clear. The A's go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i's) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell observed, this takes too long. There...
Setting out to restore the "special relationship" between Britain and the U.S., Macmillan liked to remind everyone that his mother was an American. He established a close rapport with President Eisenhower and later with President John F. Kennedy, who called him frequently during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. "I was a sort of son to Ike," Macmillan explained, "and it was the other way round with Kennedy...
...ResEdit, the hacker or casual user can modify any program's resource files. Thus you can even edit the system file. Modifying the system file can help break the monotony of boring icons and messages. For example, the annoying little watch that always shows up on the screen to remind the user how slow that little Macintosh really is can be changed to the infinity sign, an hourglass or even a tasteful obscenity...
...ether from which broadcast signals were gathered -- shows how little truth there is in the idea that design is condemned to lag behind "high" art in expressive clarity. We certainly need more shows as thorough and intelligent as this one, to counteract the vulgar mania for "art stars" and remind us of the real continuities of visual culture...
...KNOW how important tradition is to Harvard, and I've never been one to break with tradition by recommending beneficial changes. Yet I feel compelled to remind you that it has been many decades since we were at odds with the emu. Indeed we have equaled and, some say, even surpassed the status of that annoying bird. Without a doubt our amazingly rapid ascent to the forefront of God's creatures deserves an enthusiastic round of applause. We as a people are enormously self-sufficient and adaptable--not to mention extraordinarily bipedalistic. At Harvard, we are now in a secure...