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...government agency is solely capable of forcing businessmen to recognize opportunity before foreigners do or of clamping down on "generousity." In a society as open as this one, the only effective method is the adoption of an ubiquitous national watchfulness and cooperation between researchers and business. when a breakthrough is impending, researchers should actively seek the interest of American industry first...
Over the years Christian Science periodicals have published 50,000 carefully verified testimonies of spiritual healing, including cases where medicine has proved ineffective. Intellectual integrity, not to mention scientific curiosity, demands that such results be taken seriously. An occasional failure no more discredits the method than a patient's death on the operating table discredits medicine...
...laudable attitude, but the reaction so far to Rowse's mighty effort comes close to finding madness in his method. Educators, critics and theater folk overwhelmingly dispute his claim that Shakespeare is losing popularity. On American campuses, at any rate, interest has never been higher. As for the merits of Rowse's specific alterations, John Andrews, director of academic programs for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, says: "He is tone deaf, it seems to me. He has no sense of the music of verse." Al though Rowse usually retains the rhythm of Shakespeare's lines, some...
...show was organized by R. Craig Miller of the Metropolitan and Davira S. Taragin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, where it opened last December. As is made clear in the scholarly catalogue, Cranbrook is no ordinary art school. There has never been a formal curriculum or method in this graduate school for some 150 students. Instead, each department, such as sculpture, painting, ceramics or weaving and textile design, is headed by an accomplished artist who does his or her work while guiding and sharing the creative tension with students. The exhibition shows, in some 240 objects, models, drawings...
Adams' uncompromising craftsmanship helped pioneer the growing public recognition of photography as an art form. His method was to control rigorously every element of the picture: lighting, composition, focus. The image for him broke down into ten distinct "zones" of tonal quality, ranging from deepest black to pure white, so that every picture was a careful symmetry of light and dark. "The negative is the score," he said. "The print is the performance." By the mid-'60s, Adams had virtually ceased taking photographs for public consumption, concentrating instead on making prints of earlier works (the performance grew darker...