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QUITE A LOT of President Bok's recently released report on federal financial aid could be mistaken for one of his frequent open letters. Thirty pages are a leisurely and articulate analysts of a complex issue, devoid of the concrete proposals that could spell alarm or comprehensive policy change. The dangerous surprise doesn't come till about halfway through...
...only temporary, they did not need to have been reviewed by students--shows a gross insensitivity. That lack of concern is also reflected in another suggestion by Dingman and others--that high maintenance costs and the "need" for more summer school rooms and even squash courts may eventually spell the end of on-campus storage altogether...
...curious in art history. An Italian, born in 1888 and raised partly in Greece-where his father, an engineer, planned and built railroads-he led a long, productive life, almost Picassian in length; he died in 1978. He had studied in Munich, and in his early 20s, under the spell of a symbolist painter named Arnold Böcklin, he began to produce a series of strange, oneiric cityscapes. When they were seen in Paris after 1911, they were ecstatically hailed by painters and poets from Picasso to Paul Eluard; before long De Chirico became one of the heroes...
Once the stuff of science-fiction thrillers, talking machines are quickly becoming a part of modern life. Since 1978, when Texas Instruments introduced the loquacious learning aid Speak & Spell, a brave new world of chatty machines that use computer chips to make them talk has been moving into factory, office and home. This year the market for talking computer products is expected to total $50 million, and by 1985 it could reach $300 million...
...Haydn's 250th birthday is celebrated this week, there are signs that his operas' long spell on the shelf is nearing an end. Through the dedicated efforts of scholars like the indefatigable H.C. Robbins Landon and institutions like the Joseph Haydn Institute in Cologne, many previously unpublished operas have been carefully edited and issued in critical editions. Eight have been recorded by Conductor Antal Dorati for Philips records...