Word: programing
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After dragging its little departmental feet for several weeks, the Faculty has finally adopted the proposed concentration program in Social Studies. Several social science departments opposed the plan, fearing that the projected major would be too diffuse and, more important, would interfere with departmental efforts on the undergraduate and faculty levels. Apparently to appease these critics, the Social Studies program has been limited to 15 concentrators in each of its first five years...
There are millions of duffers in televisionland who delight in watching an expert at work - and if the expert muffs or fluffs, so much the better. The latest program with big duffer appeal is Championship Bridge, run weekly on film over 175 ABC stations by Bridge King Charles Goren (TIME cover, Sept. 29, 1958), and most of its ingredients are about as easy in TV production as a lay-down slam...
...Gymnasium last week, the youthful American water bugs had served notice on the world-including the feared Australians and Japanese-that the U.S. was improving fast for the Rome Olympics next August. The A.A.U. meet was, in fact, the greatest in U.S. history: with 14 swimming events on the program, seven American records were broken and two others equaled...
Plainly proving the success of a massive A.A.U. regional swimming program were these performances in other key events...
Still, the core of the list is the heart of the West's wisdom and genius. And the information in Fadiman's bibliography and introduction is helpful. Unfortunately, the sheer pomposity of any such program of cultural pushups is enough to send many readers scuttling to the pages of Agatha Christie. Perhaps Fadiman should have totted up an auxiliary list of 100 works that are MERELY GOOD (Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Pope's Essay on Man-) and another of volumes FRIVOLOUS BUT CHARMING (Petronius' Satyricon, Cummings' Collected Poems...