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President Bok last week criticized the widely-debated book by Professor Allan Bloom, "The Closing of the American Mind", calling it "a mean spirited book" that offers an anachronistic view of American education...
...challenge. Just try believing that a bright, spirited woman like Lucy Irvine (Amanda Donohoe) would answer a man's ad for a desert-island mate and set out for a year alone with an impractical chap like Gerald Kingsland (Oliver Reed). But it did happen, and Roeg and Writer Allan Scott have made an engaging movie based on Irvine's memoir...
...LEADING critic of contemporary liberal education, Allan Bloom, has railed against such historicism. He decries the notion that man's being is essentially historical, and his work never transcendent. It will not please him that great books will be taught by the historians of Robinson Hall...
...probable cause" is made by the full NTSB after a public meeting that may not be held for nine to twelve months. Whatever the cause of the Detroit disaster, the doubts and conflicting reports are unnerving for airline passengers and officials alike. Notes newly appointed FAA Administrator T. Allan McArtor: "You work so hard to build into your system safety margins, procedures, mechanisms to deal with the human frailty. When these break down, it just stuns...
...summer' s best- selling surprises are by two heavyweight authors -- Philosophy Professor Allan Bloom and English Professor E. D. Hirsch Jr. Though their books are not easy going, readers find the stinging critiques riveting. Hirsch claims that U. S. schools are turning out culturally illiterate students, while Bloom charges that colleges have failed altogether...