Word: etats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growth and personal fulfillment, as Americans fervently believe, then Western Europe is in a bad jam. So warns Raymond Poignant, 48, who is a graduate of the tough Ecole Nationals d'Administration, a top French educational planner, and a judge of administrative law at the Counseil d'Etat (France's highest tribunal). His comparison of the educational systems in Western Europe, the U.S. and Russia has just been published under the auspices of the six Common Market countries...
Harvard is a feudal institution. Despite a bewildering number of nominal monarchs and conseils d'etat--the president, the overseers, the corporation, the deans and their secretaries--real power rests with departmental baronies, lorded over by the various chairmen. If the institution moves, it is the barons who move...
Still, the deed was done. Was it justified? Mecklin thinks not. "A coup d'etat in such circumstances," he writes, "was desperate surgery. The odds against success were comparable with, say, a kidney transplant." And indeed the graft didn't take. Diem's successors proved unable to halt the "relentless deterioration, confirming in dreary succession all the black predictions of those who had opposed the coup...
Confronted with a virtual coup d'etat last month, the HDC membership responded as expected. When five undergraduates announced their self-appointment as a non-elective, self-perpetuating executive committee that would select all mainstage plays, it was a new version of the old nightmare. Faculty influence was suspected: "Chapman and Hamlin are probably behind this, you know;" "The committee will be a pawn of the Faculty within a few years...
...etat, c'est Charles...