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...designed by Architect Eero Saarinen. San Francisco's Bank of America and Western Electric Co.'s Cleveland plant have lounges with TV or hi-fi sets and card tables for after-lunch relaxation; St. Louis' McDonnell Aircraft even imports baseball players, singers and theater stars to entertain...
...lighted room, furnished with a gigantic coffee maker and a comatose young man playing the guitar, you pay 60 cents for a demitasse cup to fool with while you inhale the atmosphere of delicious imported wickedness. In an atmosphere of such exuberant freedom the most prosaic Radcliffe student can entertain titillating existentialist opinions, even though the only feeling of anxiety she may ever have is to wonder if she can pay for all the cafe au lait she has drunk, and her only feeling of dread, that provoked by the approaches of the young man sitting across from...
...authors entertain the notion that traditional subject matter has any validity, they give scarcely a hint of it. They begin by outlining the "scope" of the curriculum in terms of nine "major functions of living"-"Practicing American Citizenship, Using the Tools of Communication, Developing Economic Competence, Improving Family Living, Protecting Life and Health, Building Human Relationships, Enjoying Wholesome Leisure, Satisfying Spiritual and Aesthetic Needs, and Meeting Vocational Responsibilities...
...contains the greatest threat to local democracy now, but its circumspect neutrality in many matters where the clash of opinion is desirable." Most newspapers' sins of omission* and commission spring from an economic dilemma: they are torn between the journalistic duty to inform and the competitive need to entertain mass audiences which have little interest in serious news. The modern newspaper editor, says Williams, is "a blood brother to Barnum"; his paper "a three-ring circus, daily presenting to its patrons the greatest show on earth...
...Lehrer and the Lester Lanin orchestra will be featured at the 1957 Freshman Jubilee. They will entertain May 4 in the Harvard Union at a formal dance climaxing the annual weekend...