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...responsibility or creativity or ability to affect the world; on the other hand, a total eschewal of technique would be a backward, unproductive step. So, for that matter, would be a total embracing of it, an attitude he attacks various people--including Harvard professors Daniel Bell and B.F. Skinner--for espousing. The future in a world in the grip of technique is more inevitable than it is bleak...
...possibilities are endless, as this brief review shows. Despite all the shrill criticism of 1-1-2, the housing plan does have a rosy, "exciting" side to it. There's enough there to warm the heart of B.F. Skinner...
There certainly is a London look [June 2]. But I can't believe this is it. In my frequent trips to London-and believe me, I do a great deal of looking and buying-I am not aware of Mr. Skinner or his clothes. Certainly Savile Row has changed (much due to the inventiveness of Tommy Nutter), but "wrapover leisure jacket"-never...
...Finally," says Michael Skinner, young (40), bustling managing director of J. Dege & Sons (est. 1865), "we realized that we had to change our ogre image and our whole concept of marketing. We had to be more forthcoming, with clothes that would sell themselves." The result has been perhaps the greatest turnaround in English tailoring since Beau Brummell first sported trousers instead of breeches. At a spring fashion show-the first in its history-the 200-member Federation of Merchant Tailors presented a new London look called "the Delta line." The collection consists of nearly 40 models for town, country, leisure...
...Skinner. Margaret Mead. Linus Pauling. Isaac Asimov. Paul Ehrlich. James Watson. What do these people have in common? All are scientists, and their names are more or less household words. They are also included in a group of some 40 scientists* studied by Dr. Rae Goodell, a postdoctoral fellow at M.I.T., for her doctoral thesis at Stanford University's department of communication. She picked them because they have an ability that is rare in the scientific community: to communicate effectively with the public and make headlines...