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Critic Lewis Mumford's observation that we are living in a "paper civilization" is no news to TIME's production people. An average issue of TIME uses 485 tons of paper, made from Canadian spruce, western hemlock and Lake States poplar. But TIME's paper suppliers are all engaged in replenishing as well as using their valuable natural resources. All the companies from which TIME buys paper-Mead Corp., Consolidated Water Power and Paper Co., Crown Zellerbach Corp. and St. Regis Paper Co.-are actively engaged in conservation and reforestation programs, planting millions of seedlings each year...
Probably the worst situation exists in the American field. Besides the rambling survey course (English 7), there is only one other course offered on the undergraduate level--Howard Mumford Jones' English 170, which the Department has carelessely severed into two half-courses covering 1890 to 1917 and 1917 to the present. Other than a survey course then, the period between the Revolution and 1890 is virtually unrepresented...
...liveliest architectural debate in years. Some architectural critics have called the Secretariat everything from a "magnified radio console" to "a sandwich on end." Old Revolutionary Frank Lloyd Wright snorted that the design is mere "skyscraperism-a sinister emblem for world power." Said Critic Lewis (The Culture of Cities) Mumford: "A Christmas package wrapped in cellophane ... manticism." a triumph of irrelevant ro Architect Harrison is used to having these stones shied at his glass houses. And he is a pragmatist. "If in five years," says he, "somebody finds a way to build that is so much more wonderful that he wants...
...Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, took as his subject "Truth in the Fine Arts." Decrying the instantaneous loss of past values and memories, Jones defined the Fine Arts as "Man's gallant protest against oblivion...
...everything." A more optimistic and challenging view could be drawn from LIFE'S Picture History of Western Man; one of the year's bestsellers, it lighted up the whole heritage of the West. In The Conduct of Life, fourth volume of a 20-year tetralogy, Lewis Mumford asked for an end to the fripperies of modern living, evangelically pleaded for individual regeneration...