Word: moderns
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...tastes are mildly intellectual. Virtually every attraction that comes to the Los Angeles Music Center is on his list, and with his wife Betty he attends night courses at U.C.L.A., their subjects ranging from archaeology and modern art to drama and "Man in Contemporary Society." He is perhaps the only top cop in the country who cultivates the acquaintance of a score of psychiatrists-all of whom meet with him about once a month to discuss the attitudes of policemen and the police community-relations program...
This month Congress acted to inject much-needed relevancy into craft education. Going well beyond the Administration's request of $250 million, the House Education and Labor Committee unanimously approved a $1.2 billion Vocational Education bill to provide for more instructors, modern courses, and more work-study programs for high school shop students...
Vocational education has always suffered from an inferiority complex-a product, perhaps, of the "golden streets" myth that made 19th century immigrants feel that a trade was vaguely unAmerican. The fact is that modern technology has done away with many of the most menial tasks and thereby created millions of jobs for such skilled workers as laboratory technicians, draftsmen and electronics specialists. In the most specialized fields, blue-collar workers actually earn more than their white-collar counterparts. Yet once a student forgoes college hopes to enter a vocational program, he runs the risk of fading into instant obsolescence...
More Flow. The inconveniences of breast feeding are just as obvious for the modern woman who wants to be active outside the home, at work or in her social life. She cannot rush home every time the baby needs to be nursed. Besides, most women nowadays are too embarrassed to nurse in public, although La Leche offers advice on how to do it modestly. If women overcome this hesitation, they still do not know how to start the milk flowing. Most obstetricians could not care less; their responsibility ends with the delivery. Most pediatricians have been inadequately trained. And nurses...
Twittering & Rumbling. Today he is chairman of the composition faculty at the Yale Music School and an influential experimentalist in modern music. It seems hard to believe, but it is the same Powell-same impressive talent, same capacity for being impressed by it himself. Take, for example, the series of electronic pieces that he recently presented in a special concert at the Electric Circus, a Manhattan discotheque. It was more carefully planned and carried out than most such performances, and it amounted to a kaleidoscope of the new Powell music. There were shim mering, post-Webern instrumental sonorities, crackling percussion...