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Despite the push, there were signs that this fall's boomlet was only a spotty phenomenon. Most institutions in the South and the Rocky Mountain states were doing the slow business that had been predicted nationwide. On the other hand, many of the first-choice colleges, such as Stanford, the University of Chicago and the Ivies, have enrolled more freshmen than expected...
...credit for this TV-for-credit boomlet goes largely to the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1981 the Annenberg School established a fund of $150 million, to be parceled out by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting over a period of 15 years, for innovative programming that would bring college-level courses to the home viewer. The initial five series in the Annenberg/CPB Project are making their debuts this fall. The two most ambitious are The Constitution: That Delicate Balance, which returned last month for 13 episodes, following four pilot segments aired last year...
...began when the baby boomers put forth their own modest boomlet in the late '70s. Kindergarten classes are filling up once more. Parents are taking a hard look at the first year of school and demanding a greater stress on learning fundamentals. More are sending their children to the preschool programs that launch four-year-olds armed with the alphabet. Schools are responding by fortifying the play-oriented kindergarten curriculum with weighty matters like arithmetic and reading. "Parents now want their children to bring home a stack of papers," says Marilyn Arwood, principal of Waynewood Elementary School in Fairfax...
...While Novelists John Updike and Saul Bellow can afford occasional forays into the briefer forms, a hard-bitten short-story adept like Stephen Dixon, 48, has had to toil as a bartender, waiter and pajama salesman to pay for the privilege of persisting in an unprofitable genre. But a boomlet in short fiction seems to be at hand. Publishers are wagering in increasing numbers that storytellers can attract readers beyond the pages of the little magazines...
...decade after the Great War, the playing fields of Eton and Westminster were trod by a generation of upper-class traitors to the Empire: Guy Burgess, Kim Philby and the rest. In the 1980s, these homegrown spies have stoked a boomlet of plays, TV shows and films. Julian Mitchell's 1981 play, Another Country, is set in a public school very much like Eton and features a 17-year-old, Guy Bennett, very much like the young Guy Burgess. Prinked up in Oscar Wilde frippery, gaily mocking the prefects' hypocritical rites of passage, standing defiantly outside this class...