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Under a guaranteed federal full-employment program, Keyserling said, the government would provide jobs for all unemployed, either by hiring them directly, or by financing private industry to employ them...
...National Advertising Council and other professional organizations in the advertising field do a certain amount of policing in their ranks. Most corporations use the services of advertising agencies where they can draw upon a wider variety of advertising talent than it would be practical to employ in-house. "Client-approval" is something that advertising people are constantly striving to obtain, and in giving or withholding approval, we in business can--to a large extent--control the content of our advertising...
...analysis of those means which will lead most efficiently to given ends; reason is strictly precluded from passing judgment on the ends themselves. The value of the exercise is said to lie in the accumulation of stores of neutral knowledge, useful for whichever ends we intend to employ them. There is no time here to discuss the simplicity of the underlying assumptions of this enterprise, but something must be said about its social consequences...
Boston is one of the few cities in the U.S. that allows teachers to use corporal punishment. Kozol charges that teachers sometimes employ bamboo rattans to whip the hands of their Negro charges with sadistic delight: "There are moments when the visible glint of gratification becomes undeniable in the white teacher's eyes...
Monument that Floats. Judged by the Contemporary's first offerings, the answer would seem to be "a fair amount of confusion." The principal exhibit, "Pictures to be Read / Poetry to be Seen," focused on the works of twelve artists who employ both pictorial images and written words and ranged from the exquisite to the spectacularly shoddy. Among the most successful were the intricate lens constructions of Mary Bauermeister, the comic-book panels by Chicago's James Nutt, and the reconstruction of a 1964 Happening staged by Allan Kaprow, in which gallerygoers were invited to "make poetry, make news...