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...even a minor--concert is not this simple. It requires planning, negotiating skills, a sense of what music or comedy acts to pick and the support of a nebulous undergraduate population whose music tastes change weekly. But having a successful concert on this campus is not beyond the realm of possibility. And while it may sound far-fetched, having a regular program of varied entertainment (i.e., more than one event per year) is not beyond our scope either...
...coming developments will take the video revolution to a new realm. Fiber-optic cable will bring hundreds, even thousands, of channels into the home. And interactive computer technology will give formerly passive viewers almost total control over what they see, when they see it and what they do with it. People will be able to call up on their screen virtually everything the culture produces, from the latest Hollywood movie to lessons in chess, from an old episode of The Twilight Zone to this morning's newspaper, custom- edited for individual readers...
...want to raise government above the murky realm of speculation, conjecture and broken promises and into the light of science," he said...
...consideration of Michael Mann's ravishing realization of The Last of the Mohicans. From its first images of a deer hunt to its last shots of hero and heroine gazing westward toward mist-shrouded mountains, the film's sensuous evocations of an Arcadian wilderness draw us into a remote realm -- just as the need to penetrate the majesty and mystery of that landscape draws its characters irresistibly on to fates ennobling and tragic...
Conservatives tend to say, Change the culture. Democrats tend to think of family values as matters that might be addressed by government policy -- which is precisely Dan Quayle's complaint. Conservatives uphold the private realm, Democrats the public realm. Conservatives tend to stress individual responsibility and changing behavior to correct the problem; liberals are inclined to think first of programs to mitigate the bad effects of trends such as unwed motherhood...