Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...target of the student activists is the university. They feel, with some reason, that their education is not sufficiently existential, that it is not relevant to today's life. They want a larger voice in choosing professors and framing courses. Particularly in Europe and Latin America, student radicals view the university as a microcosm of society, with its lack of class mobility, its numerous bureaucracies, its concentration on material goals. Their aim is to transform the university from a personnel agency for the economy to a more vocal force for social protest and reform. They want it to take...
...walk into the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale next month, they may have trouble believing their eyes. There before them will be a crazily tilting, garishly colored mock-up of Chicago (see color opposite), including a 14-ft.-long Michigan Avenue Bridge crowded with traffic and pedestrians, a view of Michigan Avenue itself with gigantic figures of Playboy's Hugh Hefner and Mayor Richard Daley towering above the skyscrapers. Before visitors are done, they will be expected to stoop, sidle and squirm through and around painted plywood installations representing the Loop's elevated trains and a mock...
Uneven Impact. Of course, the optimistic view is neither unanimous nor total. Many experts think that unemployment may jump briefly from its present low of 3.6% to a range of from 4½% to 5%. Painful though that would be to the workers affected, the situation would help to curb inflationary pay increases. Chicago Economist John Langum expects a drop in business inventories, corporate profits, personal income and consumer spending to add up to "a moderate recession." In any case, the impact of peace will hit industries, areas and manpower unevenly. Many industries likely to lose war business-autos, textiles...
This fluent analysis of Disney's life, times, art and commerce by Cinema Critic Richard Schickel ruffles the image without disrupting the performance. Parents out of sympathy with Disney's too sweet view of life will continue to take their children to his movies anyway, if only to recapture a sense of innocence in their own responses. Nostalgia is a bug not easily shooed...
...world's biggest toy lor the world's biggest boy," consumed most of his interest in the last years of his life. When it came to technical matters, he was a perfectionist; he had the huge shade tree at the Tahitian Terrace pruned to better his view, and then had new branches stuck on to restore the tree's symmetry. Yet the mermaid who drifts by during the otherwise believable submarine ride is bare-breasted but lacks nipples...