Word: optional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forthright fashion that he has used for four decades to collect an unusual group of 14 newspapers and five TV and radio stations. Just a fortnight ago, Newhouse heard that Condé Nast President and Publisher Iva Sergei ("Pat") Voidato-Patcévitch, 58, was willing to sell his option to buy controlling interest in the company, which he got last fall from Britain's Amalgamated Press. Hard hit by recession cutbacks in ads, Condé Nast Publications lost $534,528 last year-although Vogue finished in basic black. But Newhouse was so convinced of Condé Nast...
...wealth and power. The aria, Oh! de' verd'anni miei, got hearty applause. After the curtain fell on the third act of Verdi's Ernani, barrel-chested Baritone Cornell MacNeil scurried back to his dressing room, where he signed his name to a La Scala option for next season. Then he dispatched a cable to his wife in Cliffside Park, NJ.: "We tore up the pea patch, doll...
...potential menace to the institution of Sophomore Standing. Associations and friendships at Harvard are not determined by class standings and the new Sophomore is free to live either in an upperclass House or in the Yard. Of the 55 A.P. students with this choice, only nine took the option of living in a House...
...those who have serious doubts as to their math abilities, an option in biology might replace the semester of mathematics; such a course would preferably develop a few large concepts--like evolution and genetics--rather than wander into descriptive specificity. Under this program a second semester which explored biochemical problems might be valuable...
...number of offerings. A continuation of physics might go into basic electrostatics, electricity and the atomic model. Such a course would introduce the student to the implications of constructs as in field theory and raise questions of scientific truth, existence, and the ideas of operationalism. A basic chemistry option, or a semester which stressed the atom and the universe--ideas of astronomy, galactic origins, relativity--would also have value. In each of these courses, the subject matter would represent a compromise between the dilletante survey and the intensive single subject concentration, which though valuable still leaves the layman isolated...