Word: arced
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such sentiments-which many educational reformers now share-made him, in his own words, "the Joan of Arc of the free-student movement." Indeed, Goodman early favored abandoning compulsory education for a system that would allow every child to choose the kind of schooling that suited his taste -or even none at all. He also argued in favor of dismantling the larger universities and making them into federations of small colleges with a student body of about 450 and a faculty of 50. Schools and overgrown universities, however, were only part of the problem. In the latest issue...
...scene was set for another enactment of the familiar ritual. Units of France's tough riot police were stationed along the elegant Avenue Kléber, which slopes away from the Arc de Triomphe. Outside what was once the Hotel Majestic, black sedans swung to a stop and disgorged the chief delegates, and their aides, of the four negotiating parties: the U.S., South Viet Nam, the National Liberation Front and North Viet...
Standing atop the Arc de Triomphe, the American gazed in silence over the panorama of Paris, traditional city of light, of elegance and romance. Finally he spoke. "This isn't quite what I expected," said Bill Estes, 22, of Atlanta. "But I guess you can't stop progress...
Vandalized. As Parisians are learning, poorly designed buildings harm more than their immediate surroundings. The city's great visual axis, from the Place de la Concorde through the Arc de Triomphe, will be vandalized by the satellite city of La Défense. Not only will Défense's tall towers clumsily bracket the magnificent arch, but the development authority last week announced a new office complex that will actually block the view through the arch. It is like drawing a curtain across one of Paris' most famous vistas. Because the project is official, it apparently...
...Joan of Arc has been many people to many writers. To Al Carmines, the off-Broadway clergyman-showman (TIME, May 22), she is an idealist with a square build, a butch haircut, a belting voice, and a yen for planting bombs in public toilets for the sake of the revolution...