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...Niven puts it: "My wife is as chained to the washing machine as she would be to the scrubbing board." The helpless life can create a nagging drudgery, a constant, often semiconscious preoccupation with the details of living, with intractable objects, impersonal mechanisms and complex logistics required for the simplest acts...
Yoshimura set out with "passion, sincerity and artistic fervor" to achieve "the finest possible space effect through the simplest possible composition." While using modern materials like steel and concrete, he hoped to build "a new palace for Japan so elevated in grace and dignity that it will be worthy of being preserved for posterity." His design called for a quadrangle of ceremonial halls (the Emperor will "commute" from his nearby living quarters), each pavilion to be propped serenely on stilts like a Shinto shrine and set shimmering amid a beautiful pine grove. There would be escalators for elderly visitors...
HERMAN'S HERMITS ON TOUR (M-G-M). "The worst singer in the world can sing our songs," says Herman, cheerfully explaining away such hits as the million-selling Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter. The second collection of what Herman correctly calls "the simplest music there is" includes his teen love ditties, Silhouettes and Can't You Hear My Heartbeat, as well as I'm Henry VIII, I Am ("I got married to the widow next door. She's been married seven times before...
Dean Monro yesterday hailed the proposal as "the simplest and best digest of everyone's recommendations." He said it was "nothing very radical" and expects that "awkward points" can be worked out. Dean Watson, similarly, said he is "delighted" and expects it to work...
These are at least two problem areas in the appointments system where reform would benefit the History Department and Harvard. First, because the proportion of Harvard-trained people on the tenured staff (2/3) is so high, the students may get a one-sided view of the discipline. The simplest means of opening the doors would be to abolish the rank of instructor; only in this way will bright young Ph.D.'s from other institutions be induced to come to Harvard as junior faculty members and enter the race for tenure. The presence of the word "professor" in one's title...