To Create the American Film Institute as an Independent Agency: Hearings Before the Select Subcommittee on Education of ..., 93-2, Oct. 7 and 8, 19741974 - 189 pages |
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Page 63 - I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace, or a saving radiance in the sky.
Page 5 - SEC. 5. (a) The board is authorized to adopt an official seal, which shall be judicially noticed, and to make such bylaws, rules, and regulations as it deems necessary for the administration of its functions under this Act, including among other matters bylaws, rules, and regulations relating to the acquisition, exhibition, and loan of works of art, the administration of its trust funds, and the organization and procedure of the board. The board may function notwithstanding vacancies...
Page 17 - Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature.
Page 49 - America. —We will support a national opera company and a national ballet company. —We will create an American film institute, bringing together leading artists of the film industry, outstanding educators, and young men and women who wish to pursue the twentieth century art form as their life's work.
Page 101 - Without reducing society or culture to language, we can initiate this "Copernican revolution" (as Haudricourt and Granai call it), which will consist of interpreting society as a whole in terms of a theory of communication. This endeavor is possible on three levels, since the rules of kinship and marriage serve to insure the circulation of women between groups, just as economic rules serve to insure the circulation of goods and services, and linguistic rules the circulation of messages. These three...
Page 18 - Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established, by the institution of a national university, or by any other expedients, will be worthy of a place in the deliberations of the legislature.2 IX.
Page 5 - Office in accordance with the principles and procedures applicable to commercial corporate transactions and under such rules and regulations as may 'be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States.
Page 95 - Adaptive, problem-solving, temporary systems of diverse specialists, linked together by coordinating and task-evaluating executive specialists in an organic flux— this is the organization form that will gradually replace bureaucracy as we know it.
Page 91 - The new emphasis is based on the thesis that "mental growth is in very considerable measure dependent upon growth from the outside in — a mastering of techniques that are embodied in the culture and that are passed on in a contingent dialogue by agents of the...
Page 157 - ... architecture and allied fields, painting, sculpture, photography, graphic and craft arts, industrial design, costume and fashion design, motion pictures, television, radio, tape and sound recording, the arts related to the presentation, performance, execution, and exhibition of such major art forms, and the study and application of the arts to the human environment.