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...would like to see each professional school represented in the Gen. Ed. program by at least one course similar to Soc. Sci. 137, Soc. Sci 150, and Hum. 11 and 14. Through this commitment by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the increased opportunities for cross-registration recommended above, Harvard would acknowledge that a "liberal education" need not preclude an exposure to the traditionally "professional" disciplines...
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...situation, Haydon and Sandhu propose the use of toys to lure handicapped children into more normal activity. The "talking" carpet helps blind children to turn outside themselves for stimulation. So does the "buzz bubble," a plastic dome covered with electrodes that produce, on touch, sounds ranging from a low hum to a high whistle. The blind are also psychologically stimulated by the "tactile board," actually a big box with 35 compartments behind sliding doors that are finished in textured materials-sticks, beads, sandpaper, glass and felt. Tucking things away in the cubbyholes, blind children experience the thrill of finding them...
...levels in relatively free markets. The result is easily the most stimulating atmosphere of any East-bloc country. But even Hungary is demoralized by the housing shortage that plagues all of Eastern Europe; 47% of the Hungarian population is crammed into one-room dwellings. Still, executive suites in Hungary hum with excitement as managers pore over computer printouts, circling moneymaking products in green, average earners in yellow, and losers in red. Collective farms operate small handcraft industries. Budapest's fashionable Váci Utca, now closed to auto traffic, is packed with shoppers who stroll past well-stocked jewelry...
...housed, has offered playgoers: Subject to Fits (a free-form fantasy based on Dostoevsky's The Idiot), Slag (claustrophobic feminine hysteria in a decaying British girls' school) and Here Are Ladies (see below). The handsome landmark building on Lafayette Street in Lower Manhattan carries the exciting bee-hum of dramatic activity on every floor. Here is life, imagination, audacity and skill...