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Died. Josephine P. Boardman Crane, 98, pioneer of progressive education, in Falmouth, Mass. A philanthropist and founder of the New York Museum of Modern Art, Mrs. Crane was the original sponsor of the Dalton Plan, a much-copied experiment in education adopted in 1919 in the Dalton, Mass., public school near her home. The plan, now the basis of New York's Dalton and many other schools, permits students to work at their own pace, freed from daily assignments, provided they meet a set goal...
Members of the Alumni College will be staying at Lowell House. Aside from their scholarly activities, the alumni will join in a clambake at Crane's Beach and a cocktail party at Kaiser's Cambridge home...
Finally we were at Winterland. Jagger appeared and it was a shock; he looked frail and innocent for a man of 28 trailing a history of fights, drug busts and death. Pouty child in glittery eye makeup, strutting and singing, posturing like a crane with his skeletal legs draped in clinging white jersey pants, squeaking around on little white sneakers. Jagger is half the show; the tight, excellent rock 'n' roll of the augmented quartet behind him is easy to miss if you get mesmerized...
...wounds were still red when Patrick Higonnet's bid for tenure came up in the Spring of that academic year. Higonnet was a Continental historian who specialized in modern France and could also cover Austria-Hungary. The Department was looking for someone to replace Crane Brinton, who had taught French history. It also needed someone to do Austria. Higonnet seemed...
...Christians pursued de facto suicide by avidly seeking martyrdom, until in A.D. 412 Saint Augustine declared the act a mortal sin. Alvarez also offers a fascinating chronicle of literary figures who espoused, contemplated or tried suicide-Montaigne, John Donne, Cowper, Thomas Chatterton, Dostoevsky, and so on up to Hart Crane and Ernest Hemingway. It is only toward the end that one realizes Alvarez is thesis pushing, that the book is as much apologia as inquiry. His questionable message: the 20th century is the age of death. But, Alvarez argues, because mankind is only numbly aware of this, the risky purpose...