Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mouris, who is now a freelance graphic designer in New York, began cutting thousands of pictures from magazines when he was an undergraduate at Harvard studying graphic design. He later submitted an experimental version of "Frank Film...
...Quiet Design. "Behavior mod," as it is familiarly known, evokes flashing images of 1984 and A Clockwork Orange, complete with irresistible mind-bending techniques, drugs and, perhaps, brain surgery. In fact, the broad concept includes even the rudimentary punishment-reward systems long standard for prison guards, or, for that matter, parents, teachers and corporations. But a new legal concern rests on the fact that behavioral scientists have been quietly designing more detailed and sophisticated programs for prisons. Quietly, because behavior mod sets off something of an automatic aversion reaction of its own. Among recent legal actions...
Despite a national downward trend in graduate school applications to large, private universities, the Business School and the School of Design, as well as schools at MIT, have experienced an increase in applications this year...
Walter A. Gagne, registrar and assistant dean of the Graduate School of Design, said that there is "maybe a 10-per-cent increase" in applicants over last year, but he said official figures will not be available until April...
Kissinger very much needs a diplomatic breakthrough on the Golan Heights disengagement; otherwise, his fragile design for a Middle East settlement may fall apart. The problem is not made significantly easier by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's difficulties in putting together a viable government (see following story). "Let's face it," said an Israeli foreign ministry official last week, "we do not have very much to gain from a withdrawal on the Syrian front." While Jerusalem has, in fact, indicated some willingness to compromise on territory that Israel captured in October, it has vowed not to surrender...