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...joint body will have to meet for at least several weeks to agree. And because a key Faculty member of the joint body will be out of town next week, the group won't begin discussions until November 10. Because of the subsequent need for ratification by a myriad of groups, students and Faculty now agree that date may just prove too late to get the council funded and functioning by February...
...hard-working people been toned down to accommodate the revisionist critique of American social history. In this perception, immigrant workers became prey for the big, bad industrialists who stilted the country's public education system and other institutions to channel a docile, well-mannered labor force toward a myriad of unskilled occupations. I.Q. testing and vocational training; the eugenics movement and the Jim Crow laws--all belong to an ideology of oppression that envisions America's oppotunity as an unfulfilled promise, a myth for the masses in despair...
...baldness and crazy clothes characterized the New York City native, but they were not what distinguished him nightly from the myriad other performers who swarmed the Square during the city's renaissance of free, street entertainment this summer. Rather, a blend of showmanship, spontaneity, interaction with the audience and use of a talented, wide-ranging voice drew passersby and regulars to Meyreles's evening mix of popular tunes and snazzy original numbers...
...microgossip-the myriad back-nipping, back-fence, kitchen-table, men's-room exchanges all over the world, the low animated buzz of dirt-dishing that emanates from the globe-is the kind of gossip that may perform a kind of social mission. Microgossip keeps tumbling in like the surf, a Pepysian lounge...
...Form follows function" has been the anthem of much 20th century architecture and design, but it will be the function of the Design section to follow form-to trace its myriad varieties and analyze its influence on the way we live, work and play. The section will interpret, in the widest possible sense, the patterns and shapes of our world. Design, noted the celebrated architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, includes everything from teacups to city planning. Accordingly, says Senior Editor William Ewald, who will edit the new section, "Design will deal with, say, the silhouette of a new telephone...