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...theory of this course Program was that it would teach everyone the same things, and that everyone would get at least a brief exposure to most of the academic disciplines. But now, undergraduates can choose between a half-dozen General Education courses in each area, and many of these courses involve the student in intensive work in a single discipline, rather than attempting to spread his study over several different fields. In short, General Education has become increasingly specialized...
...Venice Biennale when a scruffy little man with a ragged little beard rushed up to him and dramatically emptied the contents of a briefcase at his feet. The President's guard, ever on the alert, quickly drew his sword, but all that he saw was a half-dozen grey mice scampering for safety. It turned out that the intruder was a Venezuelan artist who has a passion for mice, paints pictures of them again and again, and thinks that the Biennale neglects them shamefully. The Biennale-the world's biggest and flashiest art show-managed to open just...
...closing off a whole street, and shortening others and using the space to create a system of arcades and malls. Gruen has covered the sunlit mall with a handsomely structured louvered ceiling and has air-conditioned the whole area. Surrounding this central area are about 50 shops, a half-dozen restaurants, an 18-floor office building topped by a three-story, 78-room hotel, and a second hotel, the newly redecorated Manger...
...their classical best. Catholic colleges and universities are bountiful providers of sound lawyers, doctors, civil servants, teachers. A half-dozen schools, besides Notre Dame, are outstanding...
...bank.Today, its personal trust funds and investment portfolios total 8,000, plus endowment funds for such schools as Princeton, Amherst, Middlebury, Williams, and New York University-all told amounting to more than $6 billion in assets. The portfolios of its customers put U.S. trust among the top half-dozen stockholders of such corporate giants as American Telephone & Telegraph, International Business Machines, Standard Oil of California, and Standard Oil of New Jersey...