Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUCH new capitalist slogans might confound a Karl Marx, but U.S. business knows what it is doing. It is trying to appeal to June graduates, and the traditional come-ons no longer work so well. Good money? They have enough, thank you. Special training? They have had all they want-on campus. An esteemed place in society? Many are not sure, or so they say, that they want to belong to this society...
...current cliche) is largely confined to the upper-middle-class white students. The majority of students remain reasonably content with traditional careers. In general, the children of blue-collar workers and Negro students strive to attain the very jobs that many privileged whites disdain. Most students have no special quarrel with the profit motive, and an estimated 30% of all graduates go into business. As a senior at Columbia University puts it: "I think it's great that all the academic virtuosos are turning up their noses at the good business jobs. Let the brains starve in South America...
With that kind of touch, the Chronicle's Hoppe (pronounced Hoppy) has needled his way into the top ranks of U.S. newspaper humorists. Although a shade less consistent than the Washington Post's Art Buchwald, Hoppe at his best is unbeatable. His special talent is to hold a mirror to life and let the reverse image reflect the absurdity of it all. Gentle and easygoing, Hoppe, 44, disarms his prey with kindness and smothers it with laughter...
...Haney and Head Astronaut Deke Slayton collided over whether or not the press could witness a lunar-landing practice session. Slayton won, and four days later NASA's chief public affairs officer, Julian Scheer, gave Haney the news: he was to lose his voice job and accept a special post out of harm's way in Washington. Haney flatly refused the new job, describing the proposed move "like being kicked out of the game on the two-yard line after coming 98 yards down the field." Scheer quickly accepted his resignation. Out is not off, however...
That it certainly did. An idea of the din can be obtained from a new Nonesuch LP, for which Cage and Hiller prepared a special 21-minute version of Hpschd. To Cage's credit, he makes no claims for beauty in his compositions. In fact, he regards notions like beauty as mere value judgments that have no place in art. "When I produce a happening," he says, "I try my best to remove intention in order that what is done will not oblige the listener in any one way. I don't think we're really interested...