Word: adding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent plans, if fully enacted, would give students more academic responsibility. Fourth-course pass-fail may entice students to experiment in unfamiliar fields. And Master Chalmers has proposed that students should be allowed to devise their own fields of concentration under the direction of an ad hoc committee if the existing fields do not fit their interests. The idea is not a new one, but its acceptance would be. Interdisciplinary study, despite its success in specific projects at Harvard and M.I.T.'s research centers, is strangely threatening to some departments. Educational theorists, such as David Riesman and Christopher Jencks, explain...
Neither Rosenquist nor Lichtenstein has rested by the wayside. Each has explored new avenues of expression, Lichtenstein with a series of nonobjective "modern paintings" and tubular sculptures in the style of the 1930s thai some observers believe heralds the ad vent of a whole new nostalgic school of art. Rosenquist has taken to painting his images onto transparent Mylar, then slicing it into strips to create a new kind of "walk-through sculpture." But he will not abandon brush and can vas. "Oil painting may be old-fashioned," he says, "but I don't think any medium is dead...
...Europe. TWA-or our friends at Pan Am." The smaller print appealed directly to businessmen who, no matter what the Government's travel restrictions turn out to be, must still go abroad to sell U.S. goods and services. "We'll help you," concluded the ad, "even if we have to send you to our friends up the street." Pan Am, caught completely by surprise, seemed to be enjoying the ride...
...student's program couldn't be fit into any department, but was judged to have academic merit, Dean Ford or the CEP would set up an ad hoc Committee on degrees--effectively allowing the student to create his own major...
...announcing the University's ad hoe censorship of radio and television broadcasting at last Thursday's teach-in William Bentinck-Smith, assistant to the President, said the ban was part of a long-standing policy. Yet when pressed, he could not cite a single case in which televising had been denied to a group whose sponsors requested it. Indeed, precedent supports those who asked the President's office to allow broadcasting...