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...they realized how much Independent Study has changed over the years. Originally Independent Study was to be a mechanism for students to chop their course load from four to three and pursue--or not pursue--a special project with little supervision. Actually most Independent Studies resemble tutorials--carefully supervised one-man courses...
...brother John in 1960. Public opinion polls of the last year and a half suggest he is also a popular as any politician has a right to be. So it shouldn't be any great leap of the imagination to view him as virtually the ideal candidate, a one-man combine of the goods and the ability to sell them...
This week he is in Indiana doing a one-man Walt Whitman show, which he has already taken to 23 cities. Then it's back to Madison Avenue to do an other spot for Eastern. "Frankly," he says, in the voice that no one dares disbelieve, "I have more respect for the commercials I'm doing than some of the stuff that's on Broadway...
...manager, treasurer, director and conductor of the ten-day Easter Music Festival at Salzburg, Herbert von Karajan, 59, takes on the most exhausting one-man musical spectacular since Richard Wagner ran Bayreuth. For the past month, however, the Austrian-born maestro has been flat on his back in hospitals in Munich and Paris, suffering first from flu, which developed into double pneumonia, and more recently from painful and incapacitating nerve inflammations in both legs. Though Von Karajan's recuperative powers are supposed to be second only to those of Lazarus, even his doctors are wondering whether he will...
...Sexy. Wisconsin's Warrington Colescott, 47, who knew the period as a teenager, explored the subject in his Dillinger series, a group of lithographs and color intaglios in his recent one-man show this February at the Milwaukee Art Center. To California-born Colescott, the '30s, for all the hard times, had "a kind of kinship and romance." He sees Bank Robber John Dillinger, Public Enemy No. 1, as the folk hero of the decade, the outlaw at odds with society, who also personified "the general environment of violence that is still very much with...