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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President and Chief Operating Officer: N. J. Nicholas Jr...
Senior Vice Presidents: Richard W. Angle Jr., Michael J. Klingensmith, Richard B. Thomas...
STAFF WRITERS: Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Michael D. Lemonick, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Wayne Svoboda, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz...
Promotion Director: Daniel B. Brewster Jr...
...scholars have pounded academe, as well as society in general, and seen their books turn into unlikely best sellers. University of Chicago Professor Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind attacked U.S. universities for dereliction of their duty to educate. The University of Virginia's E.D. Hirsch Jr. in Cultural Literacy blasted U.S. schools for failing to teach Western culture. Latest to join the list of academic provocateurs: Russell Jacoby, a former visiting scholar at the University of California in San Diego, whose new work, The Last Intellectuals (Basic Books; $18.95), argues that the U.S. is running...