Word: cataloged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CoEvolution Quarterly reminds one of this bathroom wall style. Subtitled "A Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog," it is put out by POINT, some sort of non-profit subsidiary of Portola Institute, the wonderful people who brought you The Last Whole Earth Catalog, Epilog, and numerous other updates. The Quarterly shares the slapdash grafitti layout that made The Catalog great bedtime reading, interspersed with long articles on topics like saddles and trappings, space colonies, and what's left of the New Left. There are also interviews with at least nominally interesting people like Marlon Brando and astronaut Russell Schweickart...
...subtitle of The Whole Earth Catalog was "access to tools," and The Quarterly provides information about many strange and interesting implements. Need a solar-energized food dehydrator? How about a Type 122 Volkswagen industrial engine? You will find them opposite each other on pages 98 and 99 in the Spring Quarterly...
...MAIN ARTICLE in the Spring issue deals with space colonies. It runs 48 pages, featuring 76 famous people or friends of Stewart Brand (guiding light of The Catalog and editor of The Quarterly) writing on what they think about the possibilities of building cities in space. The article includes not only such popular scientists as Carl Sagan, Lewis Mumford, and Buckminister Fuller, but also Richard Brautigan and poet Gary Snyder...
...Wedding photography was totally changed by the introduction of the candid about 1940," the catalog of Wedding claims. "Photography could record the spontaneity of life, the private moment." Many of the photographers whose pictures are contained in Wedding seem to recognize the dichotomy of "portrait vs. candid," and define themselves and their work in those terms. "I don't want to put down candids, but we portraitists have our eyes on something--a moment of grandeur," Bradford Bachrach says. "Candids are for the moment but portraits are for all time." Martin Schweig presents the opposite view. "I prefer candids...
English E is billed as an "advanced" course in the Courses of Instruction catalog, and most students who choose to take it bring some sort of background in the language to the course. While Dow notes that no specific proficiency level is required to take the course, she adds that English E "is not a basic, intensive language course...