Word: leavitt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where directors David Mills and Edward Leavitt have taken liberties with the text, their additions are striking. As the watchman finishes his opening soliloquy and leaves the stage, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus burst through the curtain and look with surprise, with fear, finally with scorn on the beacon that tells them Agamemnon will be returning from Troy. While the king is being welcomed home by his queen, the herald who had earlier trumpeted his own joy at returning to Argos watches his wife turn away from him, a symbol of what will happen to Agamemnon...
Identity Crisis. Leavitt's more comforting colleagues see computers as welcome liberators from 9-to-5 routine. Workers may simply stay home until summoned by closed-circuit TV when something goes wrong with the machine. People will like their jobs more when the drudgery is removed. Although room at the top may be reserved for a small elite speaking an argot no one else understands, much of the current worker-boss strain may vanish as men relate to machines rather than one another. This has already happened to Air Force men tending the SAGE warning system. Ranks seem...
While peering into the future, Carnegie faculty men love to fire off scary prophecies. Knowledge will so outweigh experience in the computer age, says Psychologist Harold J. Leavitt, that young men might better remain in school and "stay away from the whole damn scene for 25 years." Leavitt envisions business careers lasting only 20 years, as against 40 now, and says that executives will avoid obsolescence only by going back to the university "one year in four...
Mark Collins Myers '64 has been awarded the first prize of $300 in Leavitt & Peirce's fourth annual advertising contest...
...Leavitt and Pierce and the Coop reported a slight drop in cigarette sales and a considerable rise in pipe and tobacco purchases. But the saleswoman in the Coop was skeptical. "Cigarettes will keep going down for a white--then sales will shoot right back up," she said. "That's what happened on the New York Stock Exchange...