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Students who wish to broaden their choice of concentration may also elect to combine two concentrations. To do this, a student must have his or her plan of study approved by both departments. As of November 1977, the most popular field used in combination with other fields was Economics, which 44 students joined with another concentration. Economics was also the most popular field of concentration in general, with 564 concentrators. Biology followed in popularity with 499 concentrators, and Government was third, with 445 concentrators...
...Noble, 71, British bandleader, composer and later comedian who stirred as much attention in the 1930s with the clear fidelity of his discs as with his smooth, glossy jazz style; of cancer; in London. Noble used a cavernous sound studio to capture a new resonance when he recorded his popular songs (Goodnight, Sweetheart; By the Fireside; The Very Thought of You), then became an English stooge on American radio with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy...
That Steinberg made that passage, few of his colleagues doubt. But he is one of the very few American graphic artists to have done so; not even the big popular illustrators of earlier years, N.C. Wyeth or Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell or Charles Dana Gibson, can quite bear that claim. Esquire magazine's design director, Milton Glaser, sees Steinberg as a cartoonist who "by some extraordinary series of shifts became a major artist ... It is very hard to truthfully understand what happened to him on the way, not only in terms of self-transformation but in terms...
...once occupied by Nicolas Freeling's late, lamented Inspector Van der Valk. Van de Wetering's latest Dutch treat, starring the familiar trio of Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier and their commissaris, is cerebral, comradely and sensual, within the generous Hollander dollops that make KLM a perennially popular airline...
...extraordinary production, and if Slade doesn't dig deep enough--opting to warm the heart rather than chill the soul--the play suggests that a more self-conscious and hence more penetrating approach to humor, wherein characters ponder the neurotic implications of their own one-liners, has merged into popular comic culture...