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...foremost national education concern of the 1980s, much as equity was the premier issue of the 1960s and 1970s." The counterrevolution has actually been well under way for some time. In 1978 Harvard announced with great fanfare a controversial new core curriculum, and in 1980 Stanford inaugurated an elaborate system of seven tracks that would carry every student through the basics of Western civilization. "A miracle has happened among Stanford undergraduates," Charles Lyons, director of the Western-culture program, proudly told the faculty senate last spring. "They do talk about Plato at dinner and about Shakespeare on the lawns...
...foremost masterpieces in modern Scandinavian design are still those of the familiar masters, among them Aalto, Wirkkala, Denmark's Arne Jacobsen, and Sweden's Gunnar Asplund and Sven Markelius. But there are also many new names to reassure us that the tradition need not regress to mannerist neodeco or yield to the common denominator of market-researched commercialism. Scandinavian design, in fact, is still as vigorous at the end of this century as it was at the beginning...
...GOLDENBERG'S restaurant is invariably packed, even during the lazy month of August. The foremost kosher restaurant in the picturesque Jewish quarter of Paris, Goldenberg's attracts tourists and locals, businessmen and immigrant workers, the curious and the hungry. And so it was a few Mondays ago at 1:15 p.m.: a tight squeeze by the bar, a line at the deli counter, animated conversation around the tables. Later, someone was to call it a perfect setting for a massacre...
...born in Budapest, Hungary, the son of a college professor of music, and he was raised on an American college campus after a brief stint in Toronto. He is one of the country's foremost scholars in Greek and Latin and is currently leading a new movement in the study of the classics. In 1980, Boston magazine named him one of the 10 sexiest professors in the Boston area...
...make Paris a world headquarters of the computer revolution, the government has established the grandly named Centre Mondial Informatique et Ressources Humaines (World Center for Personal Computation and Human Development). Headed by Author-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the organization recently lured to Paris four of America's foremost computer scientists. With that kind of expertise and top government support, computers of the future are likely to have at least a slight French accent...