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...Just as you are born with perfect pitch, you are born with a perfect eye for color," says Diana Thomson. "And I have...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: An Eye For Color | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

...Thomson has a long history of working with Harvard students. She spent three years as the wife of the Leverett House assistant senior tutor, taugh. English Car, and revealed to 16 classes of freshmen everything they have always wanted to know about Expository Writing...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: An Eye For Color | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

...last fall Thomson left the ivory tower to return to the artist's studio she left as a child, opening a shop as a color consultant...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: An Eye For Color | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

That story is not an unusual one. Many schools across the nation have learned to deal effectively with the breakdown in discipline that caused chaos in the nation's classrooms in the 1960s and 1970s. According to Scott Thomson, executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, discipline problems are "nowhere near as bad as they were five years ago - there has been an important swing in student and parent attitudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Preparing to Wield the Rod | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

Those were the good times. Given free rein by Canadian Owner Roy Thomson, Evans turned the Sunday Times toward tough and thorough investigative reporting, assigning as many as 18 people to long-term projects. This challenge proved both expensive and risky. Evans calls the British press "half-free" in comparison with U.S. papers. It is easy to incur heavy penalties in England for printing information that the government considers secret; running stories that could prejudice court trials might land an editor in jail. Still, in spite of stiff official resistance, the Sunday Times managed to publish uncensored excerpts from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Tale of Two Newspapers | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

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