Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long-gone folk hero often leaves behind the legend that someday he will return to his people. Barbarossa still sleeps, and the horn of Roland has not sounded again, but Elvis Presley is appearing in the flesh before an audience for the first time in nine years...
...Still, the new schedule offers some hope. No longer must the viewer face a season rolling without highlight or change. Little by little, because the specials now show up nearly every night, the schedule is being broken up and poked full of holes. For the audience this means at least more choice-and a chance for some substantive fare...
Help for Dropouts. The system is so flexible that needy students can hold part-time jobs all year, attend school part time and still meet graduation requirements. The curriculum developed for the four-quarter plan offers 710 courses, most of which can be taken out of any established sequence. Students now can choose among 48 English courses of one-quarter length, where before there were only five year-long courses...
Though reviews have been generally deserving, one that particularly delighted the perpetrators appeared in Newsday's rival Long Island Press. Wrote Columnist Walter Kaner: "Penelope Ashe's scorching novel makes Portnoy's Complaint and Valley of the Dolls read like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.'" McGrady still insists that the stunt was an exercise in gullibility, not profiteering. But with any luck, success may yet spoil his two dozen Penelope Ashes. In his latest memo, he has urged his fellow novelists "to be thinking about a sequel. One suggested title is Son of the Naked Stranger. Personally...
...college graduates shun the business world. At Harvard, for example, only 6% of the 1968 graduating class went into business. Unless the corporation is made a more rewarding place to spend a lifetime, the best minds of the generation may go into other fields, such as teaching or government. Still, the generation gap in business may be a highly constructive force, pushing management to decentralize, to delegate more authority, and to become more sensitive to the needs of the young men-and women -who will guide U.S. business into a new technological...