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This widening gap doesn't just mean the developing nations are getting rich more slowly than the industrial nations. For many Asian countries the next 30 years will actually bring a lower per capita income and standard of living as birth rates outstrip economic growth...
Student film making approaches professional quality and quantity at the college level, where three big state universities clearly outstrip the rest: the University of Southern California, U.C.L.A., and New York University. All three have full-scale curriculums leading to bachelor's and master's degrees, professional-level studios, sophisticated faculty guidance. At U.S.C., for example, resident teachers of the school's 350 cinema majors include Hollywood Directors King Vidor and Norman Taurog, while Jerry Lewis is an "adjunct professor." U.C.L.A., which has an enrollment of over 300, is about to complete a $2,500,000 film-production...
...which gave every state federal lands to support the creation of colleges devoted to vocational training and agricultural research. But these schools have grown faster in the past five years than in any similar period in their history, and in enrollment the public colleges and universities today clearly outstrip the nation's 1,200 private ones. As recently as 1950, the two sectors of higher education had almost equal enrollments; today more than two-thirds of all college students are on a public campus. Educators estimate that in the next decade eight of every ten students entering college will...
...informed production, the inherent social force of the theatre can evoke aspects of men and societies for which the Relevant Issues are only images. But they cannot lure an audience whose cries of "Beat me, Beat me" are ushering in an era of dramatic Social Significance which promises to outstrip the thirties. Nevertheless (although perhaps unhappily), this siren song of the Relevant can be as useful to artists as it is currently seductive to audiences...
...doth all outstrip...