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...area close to the humanities and creative arts. I would like to propose in addition another kind of program, which would be extracurricular, but required, as sports used to be in the old days. The program would be a set of opportunities to acquire some marketable skill or craft. The occupational future appears cloudy at best, often frightening. Even the children of the affluent run scared before the incipient hazards. Perhaps a majority will be going on for post-baccalaureate further education, with their college years bent and often spent to insure themselves of entry into the most selective...
Offstage, Richardson played another role, no less carefully calculated: the foxy grandpa, cheerfully distant, fond of his drink and his pet ferret named Eddie, ever ready to scoot away on his motorcycle or to celebrate an occasion with his special display of fireworks. As for the pyrotechnics of his craft, he was meticulous in creating them, blending an exhaustive reading of the script with acute observation of Everyman in the street. It was this creature whom Richardson embodied and alchemized into art. In finding something extraordinary in the ordinary man, in revealing his dreams and despair, Sir Ralph proved himself...
...Over the years the space stations have set several impressive records, including the longest stint in orbit (211 days in 1982). Salyut 7, launched with great fanfare in April 1982, is the most sophisticated so far; weighing some 40 tons and outfitted with three docking ports, the beetle-shaped craft is designed to serve eventually as the core of a much larger complex. Two members of last week's hapless team, Vladimir Titov and Gunady Strakalov, were forced to return to earth after only 48 hours last May because of docking problems. This time, the crew...
...highest distinction with Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company-a satellite. The character actor cannot simply put himself on display as a star can, assured that his radiance will attract every eye. He must be a wily mendicant for the audience's attention, making up in craft what he lacks in glamour. He cannot just play a scene; he has to steal it. In a decade at the R.S.C., Kingsley proved himself the deftest of second-story...
...Nieman Fellows receive fellowships so that the journalists may go home and practice the craft of journalism with some modicum of freedom. In Korea, it's a special case of government oppression," says Thomson However, there are journalists from similar political climates in the Nieman program--from Poland and China--but Thomson says that in Korea's case. "We like to avoid countries ... that are closing down...