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TELEVISION Ever since its birth in 1952, U.S. educational television has been lost somewhere between the Vast Wasteland and the Promised Land-chronically short of operating capital and always uncertain where the next grant was coming from. Concerned by ETV's continuing plight, the Carnegie Foundation in 1965 asked M.I.T. Corporation Chairman James R. Killian Jr. to head a commission charged with finding a solution.-Working with a $500,000 budget, committees and subcommittees made their recommendations, and commission members spent 28 days together agreeing on a report. Last week the foundation published Public Television: A Program for Action...
...President's funeral became a heart-moving personal experience. "Television held the country together over the transition period in a unique way and helped preserve the whole democratic process," says onetime FCC Chairman Newton Minow, who exempts TV news from his charge that the medium is a "vast wasteland...
...between classes looking at a reserve book, there is no place for them to go. While Radcliffe once housed its books midway between the Quad and the Square (and conveniently across the street from the Graduate Center where many Cliffies eat lunch), now there is nothing but an intellectual wasteland stretching the long mile up Garden Street...
Part of the affected territory is uninhabited wasteland of little value, but much of it is valuable timberland where losses will amount to millions of dollars. For Alaskans, money and inconvenience are not the only toll: they worry about the wildlife that is endangered. The West Fork, Cement Creek and Matson Creek fires are burning through some of the finest caribou grazing lands in the state. The herds feed on forest-floor vegetation called "caribou moss," which takes between 100 and 150 years to grow...
...feeling. Some playgoers insist that they hate and cannot comprehend these modern plays. The playwrights counter that this hate is what Oscar Wilde described as "the rage of Caliban at seeing his own face." No doubt, they are reporting as honestly as they know how on a moral wasteland. But it is a selected part of the terrain of life, and selection implies exclusion...