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...Pilot Jacob Veldhuizen Van Zanten, 51, a 25-year career flyer so experienced that he spent half his time training other KLM pilots (when a KLM official first heard of the crash he wanted to send a pilot to the investigation: Veldhuizen), rolled toward takeoff without getting tower clearance to do so? Even defensive Dutch authorities agreed that "no takeoff clearance had been given...
Galbraith's project attempts to do for the history of economics what Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man did for science and what Kenneth Clark's Civilisation did for art. Of the three, the professor emeritus from Harvard has the most difficult job. Economics is hard on the head and soft on visuals. Portraits of Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes are simply not as rousing as thermonuclear explosions or The Naked Maja. But the obscure theories that economists set adrift have far-reaching consequences. Said Keynes: "Practical men, who believe themselves...
...immigrant queues of Ellis Island to the cotton mills of North Carolina, Hine did for the laboring poor of his country what Henry Mayhew had done for London workers in the earlier years of Queen Victoria's reign. He identified a class and made it visible. Before him, Jacob Riis had taken a camera into the slums of New York City, but Hine's range and output were larger in scope than Riis'. He was the first American to produce, with a camera, a fully sustained body of images that made people look back beyond the product...
...according to Hoving, "an entire gallery of masterpieces ... will be produced in three dimensions on your wall. This will be done in such a way that the original and the facsimile could not be told apart." Plans for encyclopedic TV series modeled on Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man hung in the air. All of this would be distributed for various TV and educational outlets around the U.S. It might have been the largest coup of Hoving's career, but last week it turned out to be a huge Indian gift...
Brahms Trio and Rhapsodies played by Teddy Tong '78 violinist, Andy Clakins '79, cellist, and Stephanie Jacob '79, pianist. Dunster Library...