Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raising the level of education enormously by the investment in space. Since other investments of $20 billion would obviously raise the level more, the concomitant argument is that if America were not spending the money on space, she would not be spending it. "Every few months some scientist comes up with a shopping list of things we could have if we didn't have a space program," said a Life editor. "We could cure cancer and we could give every teacher in the U.S. a huge pay raise and so on. But that's absurd...
Common explanations of the situation are not convincing, she stated. In a country where almost everything is possible. Dr. Bibring went on, the argument at "there is too little help in the house seems to indicate some acceptance of a problem which might, if taken seriously, find some resolution...
...nearly every discipline of the natural and social sciences. But those who oppose the requirement make what we consider an equally valid assumption: that Harvard students are perceptive and industrious enough to realized their own needs and to meet them voluntarily. Dean Glimp has provided an even more telling argument. He stated last year that a general calculus requirement would prevent the Admissions Committee from accepting candidates who display outstanding talents in the arts or humanities but who have almost no aptitude for mathematics. We thus urge that the CEP plan be approved on its own merits...
Fashion editors seem disinclined to take such sniping seriously. "The whole argument is absurd," shrugs Harper's Bazaar Fashion Director Gwen Randolph. "Sure, we get lots of complaints from designers, but we get lots of compliments too. Some complaints come from designers who are older and not with it. Actually, fashion photography today, insofar as photographers take clothes and try to exaggerate, enhance and dramatize, is no different than it was 25 years ago. The whole to-do is a lot of baloney...
...Liberman: "An artificial issue. I think most designers are happy to be part of an avant-garde development-though some undoubtedly prefer the more static, conventional photograph." Says Vogue's Editor in Chief Diana Vreeland: "I've never heard of any criticism and never heard of any argument...