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...OVER a decade, young followers of William Alfred have looked back to Arthur Kopit's Sputnik rise to fame when he turned squeaky old Agassiz into a Cape Canaveral for Broadway. His Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You In The Closet And I'm Feeling So Sad was a succes de everything that paved a high way to the big time in the dreams of Harvard playwrights. While the latest Agassiz Grant-In-Aid local-talent extravaganza might show some succes, it decidedly lacks the everything...
...emphasized the general practitioner, who had broad-but rarely deep-training in the science and clinical techniques of his day. This gave way in the 1940s to a trend toward specialization as doctors realized that no physician could possibly be competent in all areas of medicine. During the post-Sputnik '50s and '60s, scientific research was assigned high priority and prestige, along with generous financing. The fourth era, if the most reform-minded of the students and young physicians have their way, will stress wholesale availability of good clinical care...
...women's problems in society is relatively recent to most people, Bunting has long been aware of prejudices and searching for answers. "I never felt any problems in my own education or going into graduate and career work because I was a woman," she said. "But right after Sputnik I became aware there was a problem with women's education.' She served on a National Science Foundation Committee on Scientific Education and Manpower-one of the many governmental committees she set up in the wake of the Russians' satellite. A study that committee did showed that 98 per cent...
...Perhaps you could have given more encouragement to our discouraged B.A.s in the humanities. When Sputnik and its aftermath rate a footnote in the history of ideas, when plastics have been superseded, Sophocles and The Education of Henry Adams will still have a message. To fight pollution is not the solution. More than 2,000 years ago, Terence in one of his comic plays said: "I am a man, and nothing human is foreign to me." Tell our humanities majors to take heart; they will be needed. Their chances may be better than you reported them...
...nation as committed to freedom of choice as the U.S., the very idea seems repellent. Yet what the U.S. now has may be even worse: economic manipulation of the manpower market without adequate long-range planning. The buildup of the scientists and engineers after Sputnik was accomplished at considerable public expense with grants to students and universities from dozens of Government agencies. The carrot, not the stick, filled the graduate schools with young scientists?and then to their dismay and confusion, the carrot was withdrawn...