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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...requiring him to complete the picture himself through his own imagination. Hence, there is no need for television to project an orderly or "linear" progression of a story; the viewer takes care of that himself. In other words, TV's first principle is that form counts more than content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Getting the Message | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

Deluded by Camp Followers. Faced with what often seems outrageous demands for superscale ("The less the content, the more the discussion," snapped one critic), for imagery that can verge from the erotic to the apotheosis of the ordinary, the art fancier understandably asks: "What is art?" Replies Samuel Adams Green, who supervised the installation of New York's outdoor sculpture show: "Everything is art if it is chosen by the artist to be art." But even Green was taken aback when Sculptor Claes Oldenburg, known for his spoofing soft-plastic sculptures, last week ordered a hole dug in Central...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Master of the Monumentalists | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...despite warnings in recent years that it was too weak to survive, the New York Post inherits the afternoon pro tern-a situation that seems to satisfy the city's department stores, who are content to advertise in the Post as long as they also have the suburban papers to promote their wares. Since the death of the WJT, the Post's circulation has climbed from 400,000 to 700,-000. It has added a few columnists, such as William F. Buckley Jr., Ann Landers and Evans & Novak, plus the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post news service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: New York Afternoon | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...left even more skeptical." (Compose for tone with the report of the London Daily Mail Commission for the study of spirit photography, July 16th, 1909: "We are therefore of the opinion that no evidence whatever--experimental or otherwise--has been placed before the committee in support of the contention to investigate which the committee was formed.") In addition to issuing a challenge to Serios and Eisenbud to produce even a single picture under conditions entirely dictated by Popular Photography (and here we are up against one of the more crucial difficulties in all psychic research: while the skeptic cannot...

Author: By Peter Jaszi, | Title: Ted Serios: Mind Over Molecules? | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

Most students are not content with the present hours; they have been saying so; and they'll continue to say so until the hours are extended. The committee on Houses should reconsider its needlessly tactless refusal to review the present setup, and should follow the HUC's proposal for midnight hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sic Transi, Already | 10/9/1967 | See Source »

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