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Seymour M. Adler, a second-year Design student and chairman of the meeting, told the students that the UFS faced two major problems...
...student-faculty committee to examine the role of community-oriented field experience within the School of Design curriculum, in terms of student needs and Harvard's responsibilities to the greater Boston Community. Jorge Hernandex Kate Thompson Michael McCullough Thomas H. Kelley (Students of GSD) Steve Zimmerman Richard Telford Sy Adler Laura Nields
...Times's annual ten-best lists of the last ten years. It's a pretty eclectic choice. After all, Bosley Crwowther reigned for six of those years, selling conventional quality to the New York pubic post, and condeming out of hand many genuinely inovative films. Then there was Renata Adler's stints "A Year in the Dark," as she put it--when the Times managed an abrupt turn-around and welcomed even the most nouveau of the New Wave output. For the last three years, we've been condemned to Vincent Canby--perhaps the least distinguished writer the Times...
Among such books Adler counts Aristotle's Ethics and Plato's Republic. He has read both at least 25 times. These, plus most of his other nominations for great books are on the recommended list of How to Read a Book. However, 28 authors that he recommended in 1940 have disappeared from the new edition. The missing authors include Henry Adams and Trotsky, along with Quintilian and Maimonides. They were banished because subsequent readings convinced Adler that they were not really first-rate, or because they provoked too little discussion at his seminars...
Meanwhile, 34 authors of merely "good" books, chosen from the 100 or so that Adler reads each year, have been added, including works by Epicurus, Martin Luther and six writers of the 20th century: Historian Arnold Toynbee, Physicist Max Planck, Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and Novelists Henry James, Franz Kafka and Alexander Solzhenitsyn...