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Could it be true? Ronald Reagan, who in 1980 promised to abolish the Department of Education as a waste of our tax dollars, doing something to encourage the middle and lower classes to attend college? Education Secretary William J. Bennett, who said he'd rather give his son seed money to start a business than tuition to go to Harvard, proposing to spend money so that elite schools will not soon only be educating elite students...
...Pearl Harbor, the American imagination seems to have oscillated between two images, the streamline and the breadline -- the former promising relief from the latter. And in the maxim of the 1939 New York World's Fair, "See tomorrow -- now!," lay the siren syllables of undeferred gratification that would abolish the constraints of Puritan America while preserving its millenarian fantasies...
...museum, you go get some new land," Aulenti says. "To build, you must have land. Here, this old building was my new land. There are two ways to look at an old building: historically, as a monument or structure, and geographically. My way is geographic." No internal structure could abolish or convincingly mask the "geographic" form of the Gare d'Orsay. Instead, Aulenti set out to work with it as a given fact, making a new building that encourages constant reference to the old while scrupulously reflecting in its layout the narrative lines of the collection...
...into action in the spring of 1985 to try the cases of 18 students involved in divestment protests at Lowell House and 17 Quincy St. After a summer of hearings the committee punished several students with suspended requirements to withdraw. The Faculty Council is currently considering a plan to abolish the CRR and replace it with a new student-faculty committee...
Will the economic pressure work? By itself, obviously not. But remember it is coupled with vigorous efforts by Black South Africans to abolish the apartheid system at home. That it creates pressure is clear...