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While many educators applaud the back-to-basics movement, at least as a demonstration of concern about the state of schools, some are worried that it may be pressed too far. They rightly fear that valuable electives, such as music and art, may be scrapped along with the easy courses. Says Harold Howe, vice president of education and research at the Ford Foundation: "The important issue is not innovation v. tradition, but whether we're asking kids to write and pushing them to develop...
Publishers generally applaud the use of news consultants as an easy way of keeping in touch with the territory. Editors often resent them. "A publisher comes in and wags his finger in the air and tells you there's something wrong with your paper, and he's bringing in this expert to tell you how to straighten it out," says Chicago Daily News Editor in Chief Jim Hoge, who has generally ignored the advice Frank Magid has given his paper during its recent radical redesign. "Before you know it, the expert starts telling you which is left...
...names like Fassbinder and Rohmer wind their way into the consciousness of committed American moviegoers, the enthusiastic receptions accorded their latest works have begun to assume all the earmarks of a modern-day Emperor's New Clothes parable. The New York film critie cliques seem all too ready to applaud the arrival of a new "school" of film. And once the Sarrises and Gilliatts affix their all-important seal of approval, off go the chic-conscious lemmings ready and willing to plunge into a two-hour morass of clipped dialogue and plots that never really unfold but merely plod...
...applaud your staff for not giving a criminal undue publicity. The public wanted to know the story, of course, but to print the picture of a murderer on the cover of TIME would have been to sensationalize and indirectly condone his crimes...
...many thoughtful Frenchmen applaud the New Philosophers' message. The French left, notes Author Jean-François Revel (Without Marx or Jesus), has suffered serious losses of faith in Marxism before-notably with the Hungarian tragedy in the 1950s and the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. "Nonetheless," Revel adds, "the French left has to hear it played again on another instrument. They had it last time on the piano, now they are getting it on the tuba." In the current context of French politics, the leitmotiv of the New Philosophers may well be the theme...