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The music evokes a futuristic, endless landscape of highways and smoldering refinery stacks. Although some of the instrumental passages could be briefer, the song represents a brilliant synthesis of Bowie's and Iggy's talents. A low sinister drone ends the tune in an effective, chilling fade.

Author: By Johanna T. Defenderfer, | Title: Iggy Meets Ziggy | 5/6/1977 | See Source »

Though nine out of ten parents in the survey say they would choose to have children if they had it to do again, Yankelovich reports that they are generally plagued with doubts and under heavy strain because of changing attitudes. Says he: "It's clear that the new values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Family: New Breed v. the Old | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

Actual teaching should be geared to nurturing each student's capacity for independent critical judgment and the synthesis of new knowledge. For this, students need opportunities to observe mature minds at work, to use their own maturing judgment in the reflective consideration and interrelation of facts and ideas, and to...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: A Faculty of Friends and Fellow-Scholars? | 4/22/1977 | See Source »

Many of the students cite reasons for the decline in activism other than the standard sociological "tight job market--pre-professional preoccupation--gotta get good grades" synthesis. Some of them reject the absence of an overwhelming issue like Vietnam. The issues are still there, only the interest is not, they...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: The Gulf Protesters: Changing Harvard? | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

Those of you not on speaking terms with reality may want to catch Space Mass, "a multidimensional evocation of the soul's rites of passage" this weekend at Okido Dojo, 373 Commonwealth Ave. A publicity flyer for Space Mass, which bills two people as "spirit guides," describes it as "a...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: FOLK | 4/14/1977 | See Source »

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