Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Different attitudes toward feline character dominate the local gallery scene this week. At the Paul Schuster Gallery, Claire Johnson Wiest shows her Blue Cats in playful moods. A fine watercolor technique removes many of her studies from the category of calendar art. The light touch and subtle color effects remind us of the animal's Eastern derivations. For those patrons of the Poets Theater doing between-act viewing this exhibit will be a mild diversion but aelurophiles may find it more exciting...
...intensive theoretical research, he argues that these educational functions should be concentrated in a few of our best universities, so as to get the most out of combining teaching and research. For the rest of our ever-growing crop of erstwhile college students, he proposes two year local colleges...
Whether his program is either practical or desirable is nevertheless debatable. One suspects that the quality of education in local junior colleges would be so low as to make them virtually useless, and that if this were the case, their lack of prestige would make applications negligible. True, half our college students leave before graduating, but most of these people came thinking they wanted a degree, not an education, and abandoned the quest because education was too unpleasant. A junior college would seemingly lack even the prestige attraction, and so do little either to eliminate crowding or end educational dilution...
...universities specialize in giving courses in history, music, literature, and fine arts. The University Summer Courses in Aquila, the University of Florence, the Italian University for Foreigners in Perugia, the University of Pisa, the Societa Dante Alighieri, and the University of Urbino give courses in late July about local art treasurers. Perugia and Pisa Universities offer special instruction on Etruscan antiquities...
...local opener for the varsity baseball team, scheduled today at M.I.T., has been postponed until May 7. Prospects for Saturday's game against Boston University on Braves Field are reported to be better, however, although the lacrosse match against Syracuse on the B-School Field may be postponed...