Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fellini obviously intended this film to be a kind of ironic travelogue of the collapse of Rome. Visiting a subway tunnel under construction below the Roman streets, the film makers (in a scene lifted from A Director's Notebook) encounter a remnant of the ancient past-an old house with statues intact and frescoes that look, unfortunately, like WPA murals. Air from the outside is eating rapidly away at the paintings, turning them to dust. Later Fellini recruits Gore Vidal, perhaps the closest living descendant of Epicurus, to discourse ironically on Rome's inevitable disintegration. The film ends...
Anyone finding a notebook listing off-campus work-study jobs should return it immediately to the Student Employment Office in Holyoke Center. The notebook is the SEO's only record of these jobs. No questions asked...
...Libman puts it, "to create a 'living' man from a dying genius." That enhanced his public image, encouraged his publishers, consoled the Stravinsky household (which did not seem willing to accept the reality) and, apparently, was convincing on his tax returns. (Stravinsky, for example, kept a daily notebook of the minutest home and business expenses, with a view, says Libman, toward justifying deductions to the Internal Revenue Service...
...page proposal had been classified as "secret/restricted data." Subsequently, he says, AEC officials ordered him not to write down anything else on the subject, forced him to withhold a scientific report intended for the journal Nature, stamped every page (including a few blank pages) of his 79-page notebook as "secret/classified," and insisted that his colleagues and even his wife-who types his papers-be kept completely in the dark about his work. In an explanation that could have been cribbed from the pages of Catch-22, one AEC functionary said: "He is allowed to think classified data...
...Bryman School, headquartered in West Los Angeles, trains medical assistants at 14 locations across the country. Students are assigned only one book: a fat loose-leaf notebook that is supposed to contain all the knowledge the profession requires. As techniques change, new pages are inserted. Says President John Krebs: "We boil out all the nonessentials. We teach only those things that help a person get and keep a good job." Bryman places about 85% of its graduates in jobs and recently became the first proprietary school to have programs accredited by the American Medical Association...