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That action is necessary, said Alvin F. Poussaint, clinical professor of psychiatry at the Medical School, because of the alarming statistics facing the black community...
Elfin said the survey is completely objective. He noted that he earned a master's degree in American history from Harvard in 1952. The issue's managing editor, Alvin P. Sanoff '63, is also a Harvard alumnus...
...fall within range of MTV-era attention spans, but predictably delivers nothing more substantial than its premise promises. Based upon a short film and presented as MTV's first feature presentation, the movie eventually wears thin, revolving as it does around what is ultimately a sight gag that updates "Alvin and the Chipmunks...
...they all stand in the shadow of Alvin and Heidi Toffler, the husband-and-wife team whose 1970 blockbuster, Future Shock, blasted the infant profession into the mainstream and set the standard by which all subsequent would-be futurists have been measured. A quarter-century later, having been catapulted back onto the front pages through their association with Newt Gingrich's "cyberbrain trust," the Tofflers are about to be repackaged for the digital era by Creative Artists Agency, the Hollywood agenting Goliath. The vehicle for this effort: a multimedia clearinghouse called FutureNet, which is building everything from a site...
...radical acceleration of change itself. Future shock, the Tofflers said, is what happens when change occurs faster than people's ability to adapt to it. The book resonated for the 1960s counterculture, and in some ways it echoes even louder in the digital era. "People today," says Alvin Toffler, "are scared silly...