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...organizations approved on Monday, Prism takes its name from "the idea of having one object with a lot of different colors going through it," said co-founder Cathy Hinton...
There is no more difficult political role than that of a conservative from the baby-boom generation. Attitudes and behavior that were commonplace in the late 1960s -- about drugs, sex, military service -- are now viewed with post- factum moralism through the prism of two decades of cultural revisionism. By 1969 millions of American men of draft age would have gone to great lengths to avoid combat in the most unpopular war in the nation's history. Is an entire generation of draft avoiders, who stayed within the law, barred from high political office? Or is there a special standard...
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, for example, uses the prism of salesmanship to capture the petty expectations of my parents' generation. Over the years, the travelling salesman has vanished from the cultural landscape, as abruptly as a stern shut of the front door. But the image of getting by on "shoe-shine and a smile," as Miller wrote, still remains. Tom Wolfe, today's Class Day speaker, is in part responsible for updating that American classic...
...Chinon. To ensure that what the photographer sees matches what is captured on film, Olympus engineers had to link the viewing window to the main lens in such a way that the viewfinder zooms as the lens does. Yashica and Chinon avoided this complication by using the standard SLR prism-and-mirror arrangement that lets one view and shoot through the same lens; to stay trim, Yashica uses a vertical format that makes negatives half the size of a standard 35-mm picture...
...licensing of comic logos and story lines to outside entrepreneurs has been a major help in bringing profits back to the business. Marvel has licensed Spider-Man and other characters to children's apparel maker Just 4 Kids, Hallmark Cards and Prism Entertainment. Archie Comics is working with a fast-food chain on a restaurant with all-American fare that would feature the faces of the kids from Riverdale High...