Word: prospectus
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...order to apply for a creative thesis, interested juniors must submit a sizable writing sample as well as a prospectus of the project they wish to undertake. Brad Watson, director of the creative writing program and advisor to several fiction theses, said if there was one piece of advice he could offer to those aspiring to write creative theses, it would be to take some of the fiction workshops offered by the department...
Luce recorded those notions in "A Prospectus For A New Magazine." He intended to call this imagined periodical SCOPE: THE SHOW-BOOK OF THE WORLD. For Rockefeller Center, at least, which today has no Time & Scope Building at the corner of 50th Street and 6th Avenue, it's a good thing that Luce and his colleague editors eventually settled upon LIFE--no subtitle, no embroidery...
...life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events; to watch the faces of the poor and the gestures of the proud...To see and to show is the mission now, for the first time, undertaken by a new kind of publication." So Luce promised in his prospectus and so he delivered on Nov. 23, 1936, when the first sellout issue of LIFE kick-started a publishing phenomenon unlike any in the 20th century. For 64 years, in weekly and monthly editions as well as in specials and books, LIFE chronicled the world in pictures, proving time and again, even...
...Luce's prospectus, LIFE was, from the very first, TIME's sister. For decades they have shared rooms in their eponymous tower in Rock Center, and they have shared other things too: a beat--the news of the world--and an instinct for lively, incisive journalism. They are not twins by any means; they have always looked at things differently. But they have always understood one another well...
October is a cruelly busy month, and with the temperatures dropping, sitting at home, watching the world go by on the computer screen (somewhere between the response paper and the thesis prospectus) may seem all too comfortable--in that uncomfortable, stressing way that Harvard can be comfortable.. But do your duty--tell the presidential search committee what you think of President Rudenstine (like the fact you have never met him) and what the next President should do differently. Address it to Harvard University Search Committee, Loeb House, Cambridge 02138 (it should go through University mail without trouble...