Word: formations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yearbook, at long last, has been weaned. In past years, the people at 52 Dunster Street clung as compulsively to a dull, comprehensive, list-everything format as to a mother's breast. Annually, the editors let the Yearbook organize them, instead of exerting a creative influence, and the end-product portrayed the Ivy League College of University Hall brochures instead of the Harvard that any senior knows...
...least, a hop; and the direction is distinctly ahead). Confronted with the perennial dilemma-cover many things superficially, or fewer things well-cover editors have opted for selective excellence. Unfortunately the standard is still elusive; execution and content are only occasionally memorable. But the general change in format, the attempt to write longer, more thoughtful, more critical essays on selected topics is, without doubt, an important and much-needed innovation...
While the course will operate as a seminar without lectures, it will be graded. Chalmers has not determined the final format, but will probably require assigned reading, problem sets, papers, and preparation of material for discussion...
...thanks to gifts from the trustees and a 200 per cent increase in circulation (which was down to "about 60" a year ago, Hillman said). The magazine has also been converted from a lengthy, 6-by-8 book costing 75 cents to a new, 8-by-11, click-paper format, with a new price of 25 to 35 cents...
...legends of his ruthlessness were many. It took him just two minutes for a curt "Not a chance" to dash weeks of work on a new format by Garry Moore. He often told the tale of how he had called in a vice president, allowed him to ramble on for 35 minutes, then abruptly told him he was through...