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...Jean-Marie Chevalier was the only member of TIME'S board who favored traditional Keynesian policies of spurring demand, even at the risk of inflation, in order to stem the unemployment plague. This is the program that has been adopted by Mitterrand in France. Said Chevalier: "The French government thinks that its people have a right to work even if we have to pay a price for that in competitive terms in world trade." One benefit, according to Chevalier, is that the Socialists now can count on labor's support. He claimed that restive trade-union leaders...
...admissions, even though remediation costs $33 million annually. All incoming freshmen must take an achievement test in reading ability and a specially developed freshman assessment test to determine placement, not admission. Half of C.U.N.Y.'S students require special help, and remedial courses are not for credit. Says Marie Jean Lederman, a former English professor who now directs the freshman skills assessment program: "It would be a great shame, given the inequality of our educational system, not to at least give these students one more chance. To say that we can eliminate the problem by eliminating the people is overly...
Today, though, Mrs. Trilling has found by far her largest audience with the publication of Mrs Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor. She says that the account of the murder conviction of Jean Harris is not as great a departure as it might at first seem. "I have always been interested in where the personal life and the larger life of society meet." The narrative is full of the social observation that has marked her earlier work. Both Jean Harris and Dr. Tarnower are, she says, "social advancement, to put it simply. It's crude...
...Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor by Diana Trilling. The murder of Herman Tarnower and the trial of Jean Harris are given a shrewd, unforgiving analysis by a critic with literary and moral sensibilities...