Word: aspens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Broadcast journalism, which tends to be ponderous, pedagogical and visually dull, has less influence in West Germany than in the U.S. But it, too, is often outspokenly hostile to America. French Television Correspondent Michel Meyer reported in a study for the Aspen Institute, a U.S.-based nonprofit research center, that in almost two months of intensive viewing of West German television in late 1981, he "did not see a single broadcast that could be called positive or friendly toward the U.S., but numerous critical programs...
...your article about the Aspen design conference [June 27], the reference to Steven Jobs, chairman of the board of Apple Computer Inc. might be interpreted as suggesting that Jobs considers design "dispensable gift wrapping." On the contrary, Apple is one of the most design-conscious corporate enterprises in America, whose commitment to design goes beyond simple marketing considerations. The most telling evidence of this commitment is exemplified by the products themselves, and in this regard Apple measures up very well...
...office buildings that would excel the architecture of previous eras. I was disappointed. Few American buildings in the past 40 years have equaled the beauty of Monticello, the White House, the Chrysler Building, or even the average American home built prior to the war. Perhaps next year's Aspen conference on design should look to the Greek's Parthenon as a guide to "the future...
...this year perhaps it was Aspen that was not what it used to be. Rather than dealing with our loss of an imaginable future-or, rather, our yielding it to the futurologists with their projections, megatrends and future shocks-the conference evaded the issue it raised. Two programs offered escapes into bittersweet nostalgia. One was an enchanting evocation with slides, film clips and live theater of "Vienna: A Moment of Greatness." Another was a seminar on "Designing the Corporation's Future," which returned to the prescription of the first Aspen conference and of every one since: that a designer...
...Writer Ralph Caplan put it, "Designers today are caught between market research and their creative instincts. The trouble is, we don't have a choice. Non-design is also a form of design." If the future is not what it used to be, perhaps next year's Aspen conference should consider what it ought...