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Also in connection with his study, Harris will next month send questionnaires to 400 students selected at random, asking for opinions on student loans and other methods of financing college education. He has already mailed questionnaires to 350 college presidents and 300 economists. In addition to this work, Harris is now conducting a seminar for college presidents on the economics of higher education...
...latest ten stories from the dean are the same bally old mixtures as before and will be ruddily gulped down by Wodehouse fans. The serious student of English will not fare so well: any page chosen at random will leave him (in the Wodehouse phrase) with the "drawn, haggard look . . . a man wears when one of his drives, intended to go due north, has gone nor'-nor'-east...
John Nathan's clipped, formidable, authoritative king proves that all the vitality has not gone out of the Lancaster family, but with few other exceptions the supporting cast is a random, uncomfortable-looking, and ill-spoken...
...electrodes, he found that any asymmetrical particle promptly turned so that its long axis lay along the lines of force. Groups lined up Indian-file, like iron scraps between magnetic poles. Microorganisms such as bacteria or protozoa were forced to travel in similar paths; they resumed swimming normally at random only when the power was turned...
Despite lack of sales, Tinguely has his critical admirers. One critic has called him a new Prometheus "who has subdued the demon machine, forcing it to produce satisfyingly random results." Another has hailed "an entirely revolutionary art," adding: "This art knows neither beginning nor end nor future; only eternal transformation. It is the exemplary materialization of relativism." Tinguely agrees. Says he: "In my paintings, there is only pure event, pure transformation. If you want to stop the painting and look at it, don't buy my work. Go buy a Van Gogh...