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Photographs, with their immediacy and verisimilitude, are the usual means of illustrating a news story and are a compelling part of TIME'S content every week. But for some stories, on the arcane complexities of arms control or international economics, for instance, or the abstractions of intellectual endeavor and emotional response, photography can seem too realistic, too specific to reflect and enhance the subject's nuances. For these stories, the editors often turn to the art world to solicit original work, including drawings, paintings, collages and prints, that can better evoke the meaning of the text. The Essay...
From kindergarten onward, students are off on a marathon of constant learning that takes them over a series of examination hurdles, the last of which determines admission to college and in effect a career. Individuals are driven, but academic achievement is a group endeavor. Everyone is expected to learn, and everybody does. "The teacher works to elevate the level of achievement of the class as a whole," explains Rutgers Education Professor Nobuo Shimahara. The Japanese make no effort to single out slow or gifted pupils for special classes. Nor are inadequate students held back; the shame is thought...
...structures were in a dangerously dire condition, officials elected to tackle five buildings this spring and summer: Adams House, Claverly Hall, Old Leverett. Old Quincy and the Gore half of Winthrop House. Next summer, officials expect to tackle Dunster. Kirkland and Eliot Houses. In 1985 the projected $50 million endeavor will wind down with repairs in North and South Houses, the two other aging, brick upperclass dormitories...
...WRITE a play around an "idea" is a dangerous endeavor. All too often the characters flatten out and the dialogue begins to resemble a philosophy text. If the play somehow falls to convey its message, nothing remains. But J.B. Priestley's Time and the Conways proves that a well-crafted, realistic drama can lose its philosophical thrall and still provide a thought-provoking and enjoyable evening...
...scenes, the well-targeted snap of dance steps, the synchronized sparkle of line delivery and reaction. The complex mainstage machinery rises and whirs, the orchestra thumps away, the presentation flows. But the pit yawns, and engulfs the actors' sparkle, and remains bottomless, for theirs is the most pitifully misguided endeavor the Harvard stage has witnessed in many moons...