Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Verba's memorandum does not offer any specific suggestions for innovations, but he said that professors have used similar grants in the past to develop self-paced sections, to include the opportunity for doing field work in courses, to hire outside speakers, and to use audio-visual materials...
...figures for 1980-81, these departments included: Anthropology (a tenured woman joined the department this year), Biochemistry, Biology, Classics, English and American Literature and Language (two tenured women joined the department this year), Fine Arts, Government, History, Linguistics, Psychology and Social Relations, Romance Languages and Literature, Sociology, and Visual Studies...
...University Rd. will have a total of 200,000 square feet of floor space, but will be no more than six stories tall. All of the buildings will be made of brick and limestone, materials used in many surrounding structures, and a landscape architect has been hired to provide visual buffers to the buildings...
...1860s to the 1970s, and in place from the redwood forests of California to the roadside strip of Rochester, N.Y.-are all drawn from the museum's own collection and put together by its curator, John Szarkowski. But its subject is a crucially important one in American visual culture. When the photograph was young, in the 1840s and '50s, most cultivated Americans were apt to imagine the interior of their continent as a vast wilderness, formless, raw and antipathetic to man. By the 1860s and '70s, this had changed. Thanks to the ideas of men like Thoreau...
...shocking conditions in local schools or hospitals often require persistent and exhaustive reporting. "What are the odds, if you have one paper instead of two, that it will go after the story?" Bogart asks. Of course, local television does investigations, which can be effective when the evidence is largely visual. Too often, however, such stories are mere exchanges of charges and countercharges in interviews by news personalities with too little command of the subject. A newspaper is much better at giving enough facts and arguments to let readers make up their own minds...