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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years in reading ability. Faced with the responsibility of helping younger children, teen-agers with a previous record of hostile indifference to schooling were transformed into alert, highly motivated students. Matilda Medina, 18, who was two years below average in reading, went up ten points in her English grade as a result of teaching others, and now has college ambitions. "I put more effort into studying now-I know better what's really important in life," she says...
Nonetheless, the university administrators are mostly tolerant of their academic undergrounds, since, so far at least, the students have not been neglecting English 203 for the sake of LSD 1. At worst, the administrators are quietly amused by the pretensions of what they consider a passing fad of idealistic youth. Says Princeton President Robert Goheen: "It's a little ambitious to call it a college...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the first modern man. This tremendous two-volume biography, written in 1962 by French Academician Jean Guehenno and now translated into English for the first time, succeeds expertly in establishing Rousseau's tortured assertion of individualism as well as his complicated genius. Rousseau raised his own character to the status of dogma and almost to an object of veneration. "He believed he was unique," writes Guehenno, "and for this reason answerable only to his own jurisdiction...
This eccentric English comedy, all tea-cozy quirks and idiosyncrasy like a thousand others, boasts one sterling asset in Georgy herself, played by 23-year-old Lynn Redgrave, daughter of Sir Michael and sister of Vanessa. Tackling a made-to-measure role, Actress Redgrave shows that she has inherited a fair share of the family talent along with the lack-looks of a backstairs maid. As Georgy she is dumpy, vaguely prognathous, warm and plain as a suet pudding. Her figure is so nondescript that she paws through heaps of female finery with the defeatist air of a girl attempting...
...settlers and a well-informed study of black Africa (The African Giant). Now his tribal milieu is Victorian England, where white slavery and prostitution flourished underground because a polite society pretended that sexual desire was sinful and disgusting. Cloete's hero (or villain) is Edward Lenton, a hypocritical English country gentleman who seduces five of his children's governesses, then ships the sixth off to be broken in at his favorite London whorehouse. Meanwhile, his two daughters, aged five and 15, are kidnaped and sold to a Paris bordello, after which a band of reformers, led by Lenton...