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...that proliferated after Henry Ford's assembly lines in 1913 began to replace craftsmanship with mass assembly. In steel mills and chemical plants, yesterday's blue-collar worker now wears white overalls, sits at a pushbutton panel as massive as a cathedral organ, and takes home a technician's fat pay envelope. What computers did for clerks was to eliminate the menial paper shuffling, permitting people to spend their energies on more creative and profitable work. It could well be that computers are propelling the U.S. toward an era when the American worker can have his cake...
...heard such sound from the throats of an audience"-and rarely had a modern audience heard such sound from a singer. In her triumphant Met debut-in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor-Soprano Joan Sutherland demonstrated even to the doubters that she is the most accomplished technician in all opera...
...Guinea's partly tamed head-hunting tribes, the Harvard expedition hiked into the island's midland wilderness. To a restless spirit, the jungle appealed. Rockefeller grew a beard, Indian-wrestled with companions until he became the expedition champion. He carried out enthusiastically his assignment as sound technician, taping Papuan war chants and the curious teeth grinding that passes for Papuan singing...
...bohemian life is great, but it does not show a student how to become a doctor, lawyer, technician or skilled worker-the kind of person we need to run our complex society in these troubled times...
...Winter Palace), and the finale. Dawn of Mankind. The symphony avoids the dark colors and heavy textures of traditional Russian orchestral music; it recalls far better works in its sharply staccato rhythms and in the superb ingenuity of some of its string sequences. But not even as fine a technician as Shostakovich could conceal the general banality...