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...just can't bring myself to buy a compact-disc player until I have something in writing that says that's the last thing they're going to invent," says comedian Rita Rudner. Sorry, Rita. Now there's a major new format to agonize over: digital audio tape. Sony's model DTC-75ES, the first mass-market DAT recorder available in the U.S., began arriving in stores last week...
...machines are dear: $950 for Sony's model, vs. $150 for a cheap CD player. But DAT's biggest flaw is that it may quickly become obsolete. Japanese companies are already working on a recordable CD, and the Dutch electronics firm Philips has developed a new format called digital compact cassette. DCC machines, which unlike DAT recorders can play traditional as well as digital tapes, could be available as early as next year...
Ironically, one conspicuous polluter is the recording industry. In the U.S., compact discs are packaged in bulky 12-in. "longboxes," which consumers usually throw away. Angered by the waste, such musical activists as R.E.M. and Crosby, Stills & Nash have formed a coalition called Ban the Box to urge record companies to eliminate the excess cardboard...
...Carnegie Report and others like it are searching hard for ways to rebuild the sense of community that should characterize the campus -- and society at large. The report prescribes a "Campus Compact" that universities must adopt if they are to restore peace to the ivory tower. The compact embraces principles of justice, openness and discipline that are meant to form the foundation of a "community of learning." But no seminar or speech or required reading will change overnight the attitudes embedded in a culture that children absorb while growing up. Nor will they easily break the cycle of hate...
...became his means of escape from stifling surroundings, as it was, he suggests, for such other Belgian-born painters as James Ensor and Rene Magritte. Like them, Folon took a strong turn for the fantastic, serving up the quotidian in images dreamy or irreal. But Folon's pictures, compact and whimsical, have always owed more to the purposefully childlike simplicity of Paul Klee than to hallucinatory or surrealistic styles...