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...forms are not mutually exclusive; in fact, they can complement one another quite nicely. Roy Stryker, the man who directed the Farm Security Administration photography project discovered as an economics professor at Columbia the effectiveness of photographs in making abstract economic concepts tangible for his students. In clear contrast to Sontag, he became convinced that "the photograph... that little rectangle, is one of the damnedest educational devices ever made." Sontag correctly argues that "photographs do not explain; they acknowledge." But this is no reason to disparage photography--understanding is impossible without acknowledgement...
...room as the dancers desperately attempt to pounce back into the light now two dimensional again. This section ends, the dancers on their backs, legs pointing upwards, with the dots poised just above--inverted exclamation marks. In the last movement, "Arrival at Harmony," music, light and movement combine and complement each other for what are perhaps the most lyrical and most joyful moments of the evening...
...defense system. After the U.S. took them over, it made them and the Ryukyu chain (including Okinawa) bases for air and naval installations. While Okinawa has since become the major U.S. military base in the Western Pacific, the Bonin area installations are now only three small stations and a complement of only 75 men. Last November, as an omiyage (gift) to Japan's visiting Premier Eisaku Sato, President Johnson agreed to give back the islands to Japan...
With full company coffers, Peterson has returned to the acquisitions route in search of software to complement his company's audiovisual hardware. In the past 15 months, Bell & Howell has absorbed half a dozen companies at a cost of some $35 million. They range from Chicago's Wilding Inc., a movie company currently filming The Monitors, a social satire featuring walk-ons by Senator Everett Dirksen and Bob Hope, to Boston's Charles E. Merrill Books, Inc., a leading textbook house...
...supplied by humane and thinking men is a good start. As education spreads, as systems of communications get fluider, future generations may be able to create and operate a de-centralized (and therefore truly accountable) system of government. Bundy's crusade for better government now will be a necessary complement to the more responsive system to come, not a substitute...