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In his blithe clarion for what he calls the crucial link in education--"highly gifted, strongly motivated teachers"--Adler points up exactly the stumbling block on which previous reform efforts have tumbled. Unfortunately, his scenario is so far in the clouds that it loses all relevance to education's current...
For the last three years, the Yale roster has looked like a Xerox of the All-Ivy list. But last spring, the gifted individuals responsible for three consecutive Eli championships finally left New Haven.
To Adler, Paideia is a model within reach. He is preparing a manual, to be issued next year, that will help school systems and teachers implement the proposal. One teaching experiment has already been carried out at the Skyline High School in Oakland, Calif. Seventy-five students spent one year...
Robin Williams' Garp is strictly from Ork; he appears to be visiting his role rather than inhabiting it. Even John Lithgow, who plays Roberta Muldoon, the transsexualized onetime tight end, fails to give his usual gifted portrayal of an eccentric. Only Glenn Close, as Carp's mother, a...
When the remake is as enchanting as E.T., no one can complain. But a prodigiously gifted film maker like Spielberg might hold even his youthful fans if he were to expand his range and make other kinds of movies-as Lucas and John Carpenter and Brian De Palma might. The...