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...only will the concept of a 10 per cent contribution require more complete definition (how many professors, assistant professors, section men etc., go into the formula), but departments who aren't taxed too heavily now in terms of personnel lent to Gen Ed may oppose what suddenly seems like a rather severe burden. Mathematics, Government, Economics, and the sciences all may share this view...
...hard to follow through completely, to reject acceptance by whites. As one student observed "to go along with Malcolm is to give up your dreams of getting into the mainstream of American life." But though few embrace black nationalism as a doctrine, many accept it as a useful concept, an intellectual focus for their feelings...
...music, preferring to hear concerts by Jazzman Dave Brubeck, or to put on their own performances of Virgil Thomson's Medea or Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti. Bold, colorful abstract painting, sculpture, ceramics and mosaics by students and faculty are everywhere on campus, reflecting Demers' concept that art "is the flesh of every aspect of life." In drama as in the fine arts, the results are vigorous and venturesome...
More leisure, prosperity and travel have created so many shutterbugs throughout the world that the makers of cameras and film are frantically vieing with one another to wintheir allegiance. The latest struggle involves more than two dozen firms, ranges over three continents - and concerns a new camera concept that is almost certain to transform the industry...
...also breath-taking beauty. The very nature of the barriers that man seeks to cross makes them some of the loveliest spots on the globe-gorges, bays, broad rivers, mountain valleys, the approaches to towering cities. By necessity, bridges are the purest sort of expression of the architectural concept of form following function. A steel-arch bridge over a deep canyon cannot help completing the frame of a picture of classic beauty: rushing waters below, soaring steel above, and all framing the natural art of rock shaped by wind and water...