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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GREAT EXPLORATIONS: THE TRAIL OF STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). John Glenn and a 33-man safari trek 1,000 miles through Africa to re-create Journalist Henry Stanley's search for Dr. David Livingstone 100 years...
Rutgers English Professor Frederick T. McGill has given the pedagogical lie to hippiedom's worshipful identification with 19th century Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was no "true hippie," said the prof, because his rejection of society was really a matter of "giving up what he desired least in order to leave time and a little money for the essentials." And these essentials, McGill added, did not include blowing his cerebrum. "Thoreau said morning air was his chief intoxicant," lectured McGill. "He undoubtedly would have rejected artificial stimulants and the use of mind-expanding drugs...
...matter what school of painting happened to be ascendant in the U.S. during the postwar years, a small number of good painters continued to paint realistically. In most cases, their canvases reflected the prevailing mode. When abstract expressionism was in its heyday, such figurative painters as the late David Park and Richard Diebenkorn employed the smeary technique and turbulent palette commonly associated with Pollock and De Kooning. In the current era of cool, disengaged pop and hard-edge abstraction, a hardy band of realists has developed a cool, precise, in fact almost surgical style...
21st Century Preview. New York has chosen a different way. While California educators prefer the masterly simplicity of their own plan, Clark Kerr considers New York's program "the most important single development in higher education today." It is working so well, observes Harvard Sociologist David Riesman, that New York "is well on its way to overtaking California in the quality of its public higher education." Justifiably proud, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller boasts: "If you want to preview the American university of the 21st century, look at what is happening in higher education at S.U.N.Y. today...
Alex Inkeles, professor of Sociology, organized the course. Seymour M. Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, David H. P. Maybury-Lewis, associate professor of Anthropology, and Andre Modigliani, assistant professor of Social Psychology, will join him in leading the seminar...