Word: theorists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chance to Get Away. It had to happen, says Pleasants, if only as an antidote to the dulling sameness of the note-perfect performances. A boldly outspoken theorist, Pleasants goes so far as to say that this straitjacket is so confining that some pop vocalists such as Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra, whose jazz improvisations are a direct counterpart of bel canto, are "technically better than most opera singers." The voice of Ella Fitzgerald, whom he regards as the prima donna of pop, "is so naturally placed that she can sing more in a week than most opera singers...
...seems fitting that the newest addition to the fast-growing University of Toronto-home base for Canada's baffling communications theorist Marshall McLuhan*-is probably the most television-conscious college in the world. Fully 45% of the instruction at suburban Toronto's Scarborough College is transmitted throughout its single twisting concrete building (see color pages) by television. The college was literally built around its TV facilities...
Died. Amedee Ozenfant, 80, French painter and art theorist who, along with Le Corbusier, issued a 1918 manifesto in Paris denouncing cubism, as then practiced, for being too preoccupied with geometry, instead urged artists to return to the real world, a concept he called "purism"; of a strangulated hernia; in Cannes...
...Harvard or Yale, will leave the council's economic complexion virtually unchanged. Economists across the U.S. seem to agree that the choice was shrewd. "He fits right into the middle of CEA thinking," says Bob Roosa (for whom Duesenberry was a Treasury consultant). "He's a theorist with the quality of judgment." Considering the delicacy of the decisions he will help make, Duesenberry should find plenty of scope for that range of talent...
Having passed the first barrier of disbelief, many readers may still feel that On Escalation is the outline of a horror story. There seems to be someing wrong with a theorist who constructs models of men dueling to the death in warehouses full of dynamite, and then worries about whether the lights will be on. People who criticize Kahn for being "cold-blooded" are on the right track, but they do not carry their reasoning far enough...