Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LESSONS OF HISTORY, by Will and Ariel Durant. At a time when nostalgia and/or despair is intellectually fashionable, the Durants argue that the best is probably yet to come, in a witty and perceptive program note to their monumental ten-volume Story of Civilization...
...side, the Viet Cong or North Vietnamese fighter who comes in from the heat can often within min utes collect tangible rewards at a government reception center. The rewards include fresh food, medical care and cash. In the four years since the government launched its Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) program, 83,000 Viet Cong have defected. That is the equivalent of 33 enemy regiments...
...defector can soon find himself back in the jungle, fighting on the allied side. One in five signs up as a scout for the U.S. Marines' Operation Kit Carson or joins an armed propaganda team, touring the countryside as living proof of the benefits of the Open Arms program. For an elite few, there are government jobs. Two former lieutenant colonels in the Viet Cong, Le Xuan Chuyen and Huynh Cu, are sub-Cabinet officials in the Ministry of Open Arms...
This year, Dartmouth College's Congregation of the Arts, a summer program whose concerts normally concentrate on works of living composers, took the unusual step of devoting seven days to Webern. The performances demonstrated how much of Webern's vocabulary has passed into the everyday musical language. As such, they sometimes sounded like a lexicon of contemporary clichés: jagged leaps of melody, pointillistic instrumental textures, dryly intellectual twelve-tone patterns. At other times they underlined qualities in Webern's music that have remained fresh and inimitable to this day: delicacy, astringent lyricism, nearly inhuman purity...
...that number almost immediately increased by 400%--i.e. I met 8 or so black students whom I consider more than mere acquaintances. This summer, again, I have had the chance to meet several other Negro students. All of the black students I have met here were in the ISSP program and, hence, they came from predominantly-Negro colleges. Obviously, these friendships proved mutually beneficial...