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...Rangers did not fold. Instead, they simply blew Detroit off the Madison Square Garden ice. In the process, New York stickhandlers took an astounding 65 shots at Goalie Roger Crozier; he stopped only 56, and the Rangers won 9-5, their highest score of the year. Now if only Chicago could beat Montreal and hold them to four goals or less, the Rangers would have their shot...
Obviously Crozier finds more satisfaction in the American academic community than he does in the French. He enjoys the personal contacts and sense of community so lacking in France, where the only thing that the professors do together is to elect new professors. The enthusiasm of his students in his Harvard seminar on the role of intellectuals in social change is far more gratifying than the trickle of communication at Nanterre, "where nobody wanted to talk...
UNLIKE many French intellectuals, Crozier was born in a small town in the Champagne district of France of "very modest means." His father's family were peasants and farmers, and his mother was the daughter of a gardener. Academic brilliance was his only ticket to mobility and he made good...
Like many French intellectuals Crozier first wanted to become a writer and poet. A small volume of poems, jokes, and slogans came out of this early period of artistic activity. Ironically, this little volume was "rediscovered" by the Parisian publisher Gallimar and published in 1968 as an early example of Pop Art, only to be lost again when the revolt of May-June broke...
...Great luck" struck Crozier in 1948 when he received a fellowship from the French government to study in the United States. Admitting that "I was pretty much a radical at that time," he became fascinated with American trade unions and toured the country interviewing hundreds of workers. Extremely critical of what he saw, he let his criticism soon gush its way into print...