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Midas of History. If the Kennedy Center is one kind of mausoleum, the Johnson Library is another. Whatever one may think of the Kennedy Center's design, the concerts and operas will immeasurably enrich Washington life. But the L.B.J. Library has only one function: pharaonic commemoration...
...computers could not even form the necessary questions, let alone use the results, of advanced research. Hence the need for collaboration if art is not to remain in an inefficient relationship with technological culture. This was the rationale of "Art and Technology"-to widen artists' choices and enrich the vocabulary...
...safe energy sources are developed, the nation's power plants demand the cheap coal that stripping can provide. Other critics urge that mined-out areas become garbage dumps for nearby cities which have a pressing need for disposal grounds. The rationale is that decomposing organic matter would eventually enrich the sour earth...
Seeking to create corporate combines with enough muscle to compete against U.S. giants, Europe's businessmen are rapidly pushing multinational alliances. The trouble is that there is still no standard body of European corporate law, and melding companies across borders can create enough legal and tax problems to enrich a generation of lawyers. To get around that, managements are busy figuring out clever new combinations that stop short of mergers...
...apostles of enriched labor insist that the idea can be profitably applied even to auto plants or steel mills. The cost would be high, since the assembly line would have to be redesigned to give each worker at least some responsibility for assembling an entire component rather than tightening a single bolt. In Volkswagen's Wolfsburg plant, for instance, groups of workers put together large components. That allows for more human contact and freedom on the line, relieves the boredom and permits a worker to take several minutes off from time to time. Comparisons with Detroit's plants...