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...road, at Coto de Caza near Laguna Beach, a 5,000-acre mission-cum-tennis college presided over by Vic Braden, 47. Though Braden bears a faint resemblance to a vest-pocket Buddha and has a graduate degree in psychology, his methods epitomize two current hopes of Western civilization???a sense of humor and trust in technology...
Curriculum. Freshmen will spend the first year trying to understand "modern western civilization???its literature, its art, its political, economic, and scientific bases." They will have "tool courses"? mathematics, languages?if such instruction seems necessary for work they may later be interested in. "Exploratory courses" will give them some taste of a field in which they may later specialize. Bright students may enter the Senior Division (upperclassmen) after one year of preparation, stupid ones may take three years...
...explain, crash right through the fourth dimension and into Utopia?where he finds a handful of other Earthlings, as bewildered as he at finding themselves translated to a new and perfect universe. The others include those whom Mr. Wells seems to regard as typical public nuisances of a modern civilization???a titled lady, pleasant, but futile, a millionaire lord of the shady variety, a semi-prominent demi-mondaine? French diplomat, rulers of empire such as Lord Robert Cecil and Winston Churchill ?a bellicose priest who is obviously intended for Father Vaughan...
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