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Four months ago, no financial aid officer would have believed the academic year could end so calmly. The 1983 budget proposed in February by President Reagan recommended some $2.3 billion in aid cuts for higher education and seemed to spell disaster for universities already strapped by inflation rates and dropping enrollments. Schools that could count on surviving--like Harvard, blessed with a plump endowment and the resources to raise more--expected painful soul-searching over whether they could maintain generous financial aid policies to guarantee equal access...
This voice-controlled engine is one of the new applications in the rapidly emerging technology that allows machines, in a primitive fashion, to use human language. Dallas-based Texas Instruments, which pioneered low-cost talking computers with its Speak & Spell learning aid, last week unveiled Magic Wand, a machine that can read to children. It is disc-shaped like an LP record album. A youngster passes a wand attached to the disc over books that contain not only pictures and words but also bar codes on pages similar to those that now appear on grocery items, magazines and other goods...
...Rake-inspired by the famous series of Hogarth engravings-tells the story of Tom Rakewell (Tenor Gösta Winbergh), a naive but lustful country boy who falls under the spell of the Devil, Nick Shadow (Baritone Istvan Gati). Abandoning his sweetheart Anne Trulove (Soprano Cecilia Gasdia) for the fleshpots of London, Tom sinks ever deeper into degradation until he finally goes mad and is committed to Bedlam. In Russell's production, Tom sports a gold lame suit and a Sony Walkman. Baba the Turk, the bearded lady whom Tom marries, is a blind pop celebrity in a bright...
...cost of about $1.5 million, he was cheap. As Spielberg points out, Marlon Brando gets about three times as much. And E.T. will earn his keep with the usual spinoffs: candy, dolls, T shirts, an alarm clock, a toy game to be made by Texas Instruments, whose Speak & Spell game is part of the device E.T. makes to re-establish contact with his spaceship. "Phone home," the little lost spaceman learns to say plaintively, and this dictates the single TV commercial that Spielberg will allow him to make. Naturally, it will be for the Bell System: Reach out and touch...
Describing himself as a child of the '60s who was merely a little older than most who fell under the spell of the times. Marglin says his conversion to radical thought occurred shortly after he received tenure in the spring of 1967. Prior to that, he had perceived no inherent contradiction between his liberal weekend politics and his working week mainstream economics. Only latter, he says, did he recognize that the implicit ideology behind the latter was untenable with the former. He had dedicated himself to developmental economics for its challenge. "We had been taught, and we believed, there were...