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...reported that young children could easily learn a lot about optics, Creative Playthings, Inc. of Cranbury, N.J., invented a tough, clear plastic bag which, filled with water, makes a big and satisfying magnifying glass. The same company also devised a three-legged stool whose height is equal to the focal length of a giant lens in the middle of the seat, a triangular wood box with three peephole lenses for viewing an object's change in size, and a merry-go-round of mirrors that reflect other mirrors and spy around corners. A set of colored Plexiglas paddles demonstrates...
JUDY: That's quite all right. And surely you mean lenses, Jake. What a superb melange de style Vierney achieves utilizing quasi-fish-eye, extreme wide angle, kaleidoscopic, wide angle standard focal length, and long lens shots. Shots that delicately commingle the chameleon pastel shades and confirm Resnais's mastery of montage and complete command of mise en scene. Surely, one of the great auteurs...
More than a library, the Center is envisioned by its planners as a focal point for learning on many levels. By providing 20 faculty offices, it will be the means of finally drawing a sizable group of faculty to the 'Cliffe. These offices will probably be given to younger faculty who are connected in some way--perhaps as tutors or advisers--with Radcliffe. Predicting the effects of this provision, Mrs. Bunting observes: "You would never expect to walk into the library now and stop to talk with a faculty member; but in the new Center, it will be a common...
Planned as the focal point of the Quad, rather than to fit in with the other buildings, the Study Center's brilliant, white surface of limestone panels and concrete will be broken by the shadows of its recessed windows. "If we had wanted the building to fit in," comments Mrs. Bunting, "we would have made it of red brick, but we didn't want the new Center to look like a dormitory...
...translation of "intellectual capacities well employed" into "scholarship" measured largely by grades is the focal point of Mr. Pusey's suggestions and of faculty compliants. Yet I suspect they are dissatisfied for directly opposite reasons...