Word: survey
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Last week a survey of Vollard's 45 years of work as impresario went on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. It is the kind of show that only a museum with the resources of MOMA could bring together-more than 450 prints, books and bronzes, accompanied by a catalogue raisonné by Art Historian Una Johnson, and all assembled by MOMA's director of prints and illustrated books, Riva Castleman...
Other dire fears of last winter have also disappeared. A shortage of fertilizer had seemed likely because large quantities of natural gas are needed to make it, and a Government survey found manufacturers' inventories to be low. But the survey did not count the inventories of wholesalers and retailers, who had built record stocks. Farmers this year have enough fertilizer to enable them to produce huge crops (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
Perhaps most significantly, the 1976-'77 selection of Afro courses introduced the first comprehensive survey of the historical role played by Black America, Afro-American Studies 118d, "Afro-American History." The only non-tutorial course required of all concentrators, Afro 118d was described by one otherwise disgruntled senior as the "only systematic course" covering the black American's experience that the department offers. But the 1977 Concentrators' Report and the comments of several students dissatisfied with the "new look" at Afro suggest that the department's stormy period has not ended yet; the tempests merely have subsided for the present...
...suite of Yard freshmen conducted their own survey of freshmen to ascertain relative House popularities and then simulated the housing office's lottery procedure with their own computer program in order to plan their optimum course of action...
...least some voters, one reason for their disappointment is that they have increasingly come to view Carter as a moderate-to-conservative politician. One month before the 1976 election, 35% of the voters surveyed saw Carter as either a liberal or a radical; in the new survey, about half that many -18%-described him in those terms...