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...Britain, American N.U.C. courses rely more on assigned reading than on their half-hour TV programs, which are designed to maintain a high level of interest among stay-at-home students. Chatty, first-person handbooks, specially written for the course by such noted teachers as Oxford Historian J.P.V.D. Balsdon and Archaeologist Peter Salway, a regional director of the Open University, guide students in their reading of original source material. On page 44 of one handbook, for instance, Balsdon notes briskly, "I cannot imagine your having the time" to read all 77 pages on the Emperor Augustus, but he adds...
...store of food on hand in case of pestilence or famine. Their grand sachem is Howard Ruff, 49, devout Mormon, professional pessimist and author of How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (2.5 minion copies sold). Ruff is the economic evangelist behind Ruff Hou$e, a half-hour syndicated television show that preaches to 2 million viewers every week the benefits of investing in hard goods, gold, silver coins and small-town real estate. Acting on his own forecasts of "major social and political disruptions in the country's urban areas" and "the most difficult times since...
...compared with 65 to 85 in Western Europe. Eight or more convicts are herded into cramped cells without real beds or tables. They are permitted outside their cells for only two daily hours of exercise or for visits with lawyers. Once a month, they are permitted a half-hour visit with relatives...
Oddly, the work that is relatively the most familiar, and historically the most significant, turns out to be the most disappointing. Erwartung (Expectation) is a half-hour Expressionist phantasmagoria in which a woman wanders a forest at night, yearning for a lover who has left her (or whom she may have killed), then finds his corpse (or imagines she has found it). The score, composed in 1909, broke down harmony until it had no real key, fragmented melody into an apparently unrelated succession of motifs and dissolved all structure by avoiding repetitions. It was as though Schoenberg felt a need...
Shortly after teaming up with Reasoner at CBS in 1962, Rooney began exploring the mundane in earnest, turning out half-hour TV essays on such topics as chairs, doors and bridges. Throughout their six-year collaboration, it was Reasoner on camera and Rooney in the background, writing and producing. Says he: "It never occurred to me to be the guy reading my stuff...