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...universities start with one strong suit - typically, a good medical school. What marks them is a new effort to strengthen their other schools, to pool their resources with former rivals, to serve the community in some striking way, to install strong leadership and keep moving. Though worried because they lag in undergraduate education, they nonetheless see graduate study as their rising role in a knowledge-hungry society. More than ever they are ready to use money effectively. At least four such schools, all private, have now outstripped their regional reputations and stand ready for national recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: TAKE-OFF UNIVERSITIES | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...even transfer the raw materials of music, sequences of notes, from one style to another, with only minor changes. Thus of the six works by the members of Moevs' pro-seminar which were performed Monday, three used themes variously derived from the beginning of the hymn "Victimae Paschali" Christ lag in Todesbanden. An unshaken sense of coherence, occasionally lapsing into flat uniformity, bound each piece tightly into a unit...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Moevs' Pro-Seminar | 5/22/1963 | See Source »

...been reassessed as a far more daring painter than his antimacassar subject matter made him seem. Freshman Stuart Davis, then 18, is now one of the world's best abstractionists, and Edward Hopper, then 30, carries on the realist tradition at its best. In 1963, the cultural lag of 50 years ago no longer exists-and perhaps it was never so wide as it seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Glorious Affair | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

Michael Guilloton, the head-waiter in the nightclub, however, is thoroughly delightful. A la Peter Ustinov, he cleverly develops comedy in lines that could easily pass unnoticed, and his sense of pace keeps the play moving when other lag...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Time Remembered | 3/16/1963 | See Source »

Bankers' Despair. Seeing the growth of their lucrative corporate deposits lag has naturally distressed bankers. To expand their earning power, many banks that served mainly industry have had to merge with more consumer-oriented banks to win personal savings accounts. They have also taken to smothering their corporate clients with helpful services, from figuring their payrolls to giving advice on foreign investments. But nothing wins over the flinty-eyed treasurer like a better interest rate. "It's fantastic what some of them will do for a one-hundredth of one percent pickup in interest," says a Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: The Sharp-Pencil Men | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

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