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...used to be the word for the University of Massachusetts School of Education. Like many such trade schools, it trained teachers in stale methods and lacked a complete graduate program. Then, two years ago, the university turned the place over to a frenetic professor of education from California named Dwight W. Allen. Ever since, it has hurtled into experiments that could turn U.S. teachers into models of sensitivity−or cause the school to selfdestruct...
...four. Later he studied piano and theory formally for five years at London's Royal Academy of Music. Then he chucked the classics for pop, joined the British group called Bluesology and adopted his current name, figuring he would just never make it as Reginald Kenneth Dwight...
...most distressing historical accomplishment of Sarris's rise to fame has been his ability to turn avowed cultism into a major dynamic in a film world previously unsullied by grotesque consumer fetishism. With Kauffmann writing for the New Republic, Dwight MacDonald for Esquire, and Robert Hatch for the Nation, film scholarship was not in the "shambles by the early sixties" that Sarris claims. And despite the spiritual association Sarris (and nearly every other film critic) attempts to make with James Agee, he is far removed from that critic's quality. Though Sarris, while writing for Film Culture, the Village Voice...
...national committee office to review this fall's campaign and map tactics for 1972. Among those attending: Mitchell, Finch, Rogers Morton and his brother, former National Committee Chairman Thruston Morton, House Campaign Chairman Bob Wilson and his Senate counterpart John Tower, and Leonard Hall, the architect of Dwight Eisenhower's 1956 campaign. Hall was there because he alone among the group had experience in running a campaign for an incumbent President...
...Gaulle still remained something of a mystery to Americans. He claimed a grandeur, a synecdoche of self and nation ("La France, c'est moi"), which in another man would have seemed monstrously totalitarian, or at least extremely eccentric. America's last comparable hero was Dwight Eisenhower, as Kansan as De Gaulle was Cartesian, and it may be that Ike was the last man who could have said with any safety: "I am America!" Richard Nixon would not dare to try the formulanor would Georges Pompidou, for that matter. The U.S. has accommodated itself to a life...