Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need not be expensive. Basic equipment, in addition to the glass, can be bought for less than $50. It includes: a glass cutter, a breaker (for splitting the glass), a grozier (to grind off errors), copper foil or lead (to hold the pieces together), a lathekin (a wooden tool) to flatten the foil on the glass, a soldering iron, a lubricant (usually kerosene) to make the cutter run smoothly on the glass, a flux (a solution to make the solder adhere to the foil or lead). New techniques, such as sandblasting, silk-screen painting, laminating and the use of epoxy...
...understand the surging popularity of Citizens' Band (CB) radio, which solicits audience participation in electronic media. A CB operator finds the radio a suitable stage for the enactment of daydreams. Serving as an outlet for the hidden personalities of its users, CB becomes either a creative or a destructive tool for individual fantasies...
...president's greatest tool in controlling the news is creating "pseudo events," Barnes said. Most presidential trips abroad are partly "pseudo events" because they are often designed to improve the president's image, he added...
...attention: special engineers and special maintenance techniques make costs prohibitive. Studio professor Alfred Guzzetti says he regrets not having access to more video equipment for VES 158r, "Sound and Image," a course he is teaching this semester on film and electronic music. He feels it is a good teaching tool because it can be used immediately and is erasable. Both Guzzetti and Gardner recognize a student demand for and interest in video, but don't want to hold out false carrots to students by offering a video program which is not adequately funded. "We ought to do it well...
...late '60s students no longer looked for ways to put new life into liberal arts education--they attacked it as a tool of an oppressive social order. Instead of demanding more general education students tended to demand courses more relevant to particular contemporary problems. In a way, it was easier for the Faculty to satisfy these demands than those put forward by the 1964 Committee on Educational Policy. The Faculty was able to introduce an abundance of new Gen Ed courses dealing with the American political power structure and energy development without changing the overall structure or the philosophy...