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...Communication Through Typography exhibition properly, the first point is that material utilizing typographic design is an inescapable part of our culture. Industrial society needs great quantities of such material for newspapers, travel posters, corporation reports and their ilk. The individual exhibits are purposely pedestrian. They are things we confront every...
Judging from its press release, The Young Lovers is a frank, serious, yet sensitive "film" (not movie) about the moral dilemmas which confront today's college generation. It does its best to avoid some of the customary embarassing cliches. For instance, when the girl lets it be known that she's pregnant, her mother crinkles her sad but wise eyes and says, "You love him very much, don't you?" instead of calling the police. And the abortionist turns out to be a prosperous-looking physician instead of the usual touchless crone with a bent coat-hanger...
...define Gen Ed too precisely; after all, the Committee has worked for two years and considered a host of alternatives before reaching the published formulation. But we think it is naive of the Committee to expect a commitment to General Education from the Faculty when it fails to confront important questions of definition upon which the whole Gen Ed program must rest...
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...world's most diversified company. The oldest electronics firm and the second biggest producer of electrical equipment (after General Electric) in the U.S., Westinghouse makes 8,000 different products in 300,000 variations. The company's 59 divisions, with their 64 plants spread through 20 states, daily confront almost every American with some Westinghouse product, from 6,000 types of light bulbs to the output of five TV and seven radio stations...