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...producing such men. The present situation of the program is therefore extraordinarily precarious, for by abandoning devotion to it to a group of unusually dedicated men the Faculty has withheld from Gen Ed the possibility of long endurance. The University has unconsciously and very slightly slipped toward a Chicagoan conception of Gen Ed as an undergraduate core program largely run by a faculty of its own, and separate from the graduate schools. The critical difference is that Harvard is not training new men for such a faculty, and is not recruiting any from the outside...
Harry S. Stonehill resembles the kind of character that the late Sydney Greenstreet used to play in all the old Warner Bros, beaded-curtain thrillers. A blunt, beefy Chicagoan who changed his name from Steinberg in 1942 because "German names at that time weren't very popular," Stonehill built up a $50 million business empire in the Philippines. "Every man has his price," said Harry Stonehill, and in the Philippines after World War II he found that the going rate was fairly cheap; at one time he boasted: "I am the government...
Handsome Payoff. To FCC Chairman Newton Minow, WFMT has long been a sort of vast tasteland. Chicagoan Minow admires the station because it is making what he calls "a real cultural attack." Its programming is about 80% classical music, and the other 20% includes shows of uniformly high quality, ranging from plays and readings by minor and major poets to heady discussions and adequate but not repetitive news. Most celebrated WFMT character is Studs Terkel, who runs a daily 10-11 a.m. program of literate talk with both itinerant and local celebrities, such as Tennessee Williams and Chicago Novelist Nelson...
...taxpayer discontent has led to rebellions-including, in some simplified versions of U.S. history, the violent tax protests that brought on the U.S. Revolution. In the light of such a past, there seemed a docile if grudging inevitability about the way most U.S. taxpayers shuffled in to pay up. Chicagoan Robert Sassetti. who as a public accountant has plenty of opportunity to observe taxpayers, thinks: "Most people now have a much more sober attitude toward income taxes than they used to have. They seem to want to support the Government.The nation is growing up to realize that we have...
...many academic high schools. Discipline is well in hand. Future aircraft mechanics are too busy peering into a jet engine, or revving up a mounted piston engine, to get into much trouble. In the auto shop, young tinkerers stay out of trouble with "outside jobs." At Dunbar, a pricewise Chicagoan can get a Cadillac engine overhauled for $160, v. $350 at the factory...