Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, merits more than anonymity. It avoids the pitfalls of most scholarly journals--an overspecialized, unreadable, pointless, breed fit only for the bowels of Widener. Though it is snobbishly intellectual, Daedalus nonetheless challenges intellectuals to apply their respective disciplines to controversies once consided too low for "dignified' scholarship. Such topics include student politics, the American national style, the Negro American, life in the year 2000, and even motion pictures. On every topic, Daedalus proposes to organize, not feed, the information explosion...
Editor Stephen Graubard and Managing Editor Geno Ballotti set topics, arrange the conferences, and negotiate with the foundations. "The suggestion for an issue of Daedalus," Graubard says, "might originate from a chance comment, a parenthetical remark; just as frequently it came through an explicit request of an interested reader." This is especially true if the interested reader happens to be the Carnegie Corporation. To qualify, the problem-topic must be such a nature as to require collaboration. To each topic is devoted a whole issue of Daedalus. The editors consult a larger planning commission, usually associated with the Academy...
...terse, intensely cerebral score creates its stereophonic effect across the expanse of a normal concert stage, as two small orchestras, one centered around a harpsichord and the other around a piano-but both conducted by Frederik Prausnitz -toss questions and answers back and forth on some unnamed, obviously serious topic. The most striking musical effect is a slow, undulating, ill-tempered growl from the percussion toward the end of the piece that seems to sweep back and forth from one group to the other, murmuring imprecations at both...
There had been earlier agreement on having no agenda so that the delegates would be free to tackle any topic they chose. The U.S. welcomed the arrangement because it bought some time for the new Administration in Washington to map its negotiating strategy...
Snuggled into her cosiest leopard-skin dress, Gina Lollobrigida, 40, breezed into Manhattan to say a few good words for her 51st film, Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell. She also passed some opinions on her favorite topic. "In America, women are so important and so selfish. They become so powerful that they're the equals of men," she said. "In Europe, we act small and stupid. And that makes us appealing." To whom was she appealing at the moment? asked a reporter. "Very many men. I am very generous,"was the answer. "Today, sexy comes from the personality...