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Berghof's staging of the outdoor barbecue and drinking party participated in by Sir Toby Belch and his cronies is a brilliant elaboration. It is also leisurely: the carousers join in singing, one after another, a wonderful series of catches and glees--and not just snatches, but entire pieces. These...
France's grueling baccalaureate exam, the pre-university hurdle founded by Napoleon 151 years ago, has been a nightmare for secondary-school students ever since. The "bachot"' is a double headache: up to three days of stiff written exams, one appalling day of ten successive 10-minute oral...
Last week France produced a startling reform: no more oral exams. Had Education Minister Andre Boulloche abolished schools he could not have provoked more happy whoops and shocked wails.
But others cheered the second French Revolution. Wrote famed Intellectual Andre Maurois: "It's a good thing to suppress the orals, which are fatal for the timid. An individual can express himself fully in writing, give a survey of his true value on an exam paper, but be incapable...
In a Renaissance palace off St. Peter's Square, twelve Vatican-appointed "qualifiers" daily scrutinize books from all over the world. They confer regularly with 24 consultants, and if a book is found to be contrary to Catholic faith and morals, nine cardinals review their findings. Together, the three...