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Kerr said that the university will continue to become more involved in the life of society in other ways, as Newman's vision of the university as an "Ivory tower" grows dimmer. "Extension work is really becoming 'life-long learning,'" he noted, and added that television now means "the boundaries of the university are stretched to embrace all of society." In addition, university facilities, such as libraries, and centers for the performing and visual arts, will become more important in the nation's cultural life, Kerr predicted...
Having been a life-long reader of the Saturday Evening Post and other Curtis Publications, I was most disturbed to read in the Dec. 15 issue of TIME that "Philadelphia's proud old publishing company is available." If you had been as thorough in your fact-finding as I have been in mine, you would have found that Mrs. Zimbalist's holdings constitute 3.2% of the outstanding stock, not the 32% you quote...
...generation is outmoded. We can't deal with the issues of today." Herbert Pell is heroically unequivocal--especially for a politician--and is delightfully quick-witted in his vignettes of "the old days" or "when I was a boy" or "when FDR was in"--frequent Pell terms. A life-long Democrat, the ambassador decries straight party voting as "unintelligent...
Lockspeiser, who has written a biography of Debussy, said "his life-long obsession" with the writings of Poe influenced the "musical psychology" of his works, especially Peleas et Mellgande, La Cathedrale Engloutle and La. Mer. Poe's fascination with dreams and sexual symbolism cast a "subtle and profound influence over his works," and two of them, The Devil in the Belfry and The Fall of the House of Usher, so affected the composer that he used them as the basis of two never-completed operas...
...only three days to rehearse with the Bolshoi Opera. He proved to be in top form, sang his part in near-perfect Russian (although he does not speak the language). The audience gave him a standing ovation and eight curtain calls. Said London: "This is the climax of a life-long dream...