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...weighty issues in the paper's editorial' pages somehow lacked a sense of urgency, it is well to remember that this was a far simpler age. The change of the College color from magenta to crimson, which occurred in 1875, is a case in point. Rather than make any rash decision. Mr. Eliot researched the history of the color, studied the precedents, and began a long series of consultations with alumni and faculty, which all culminated in a mass meeting in Holden Chapel in May. After lengthy argument and debate, a motion to change the color was made. It passed...
Truman had personally approved elaborate military plans for a five-day state funeral ("A damn fine show. I just hate that I'm not going to be around to see it," he had said), including attendance by heads of state. But a shorter, simpler schedule was ordered by his wife Bess, 87, whom he had often referred to fondly as "the boss." Instead of the planned procession with muffled drums, a casket-bearing caisson and the symbolic riderless horse, a caravan of 21 cars and a hearse briskly transferred the body from a funeral home to the Truman Library...
Nowadays, almost anyone can learn to ski, and many people in their 40s and 50s are taking it up. New teaching methods have made it much simpler. Most important of them is the Graduated Length Method. A G.L.M. student starts out on skis as short as 2½ ft. and works up through increasingly longer ones as his skill improves. A beginner can do parallel turns after five hours of instruction, less than half the time required by older methods. At most areas where G.L.M. is taught, a skier can rent the graduated skis and buy five hours of lessons...
...Technology-a new Unity." It implies, he said, that "art is wonderful, technology is wonderful, so the two together must be twice as wonderful. That is not so." As for the famous tag-"form follows function"-Breuer wryly added: "Not always." What he aimed at was "something simpler, more elemental, more generous and more human than a machine...
...throat again.' " But after a morning with Bach and his Widgeon, Foote saw the makings of a much larger article. "You can forgive Jonathan almost anything when you deal with Bach," he says. "He's an extraordinary man, in some ways a throwback to a simpler America, in some ways like the youth in the counterculture, reaching out for unorthodox ways of knowing himself and the world...