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...were laid a decade ago with publication of The Affluent Society. Along with David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd, the book was one of the two most influential social critiques of the '50s, has been on reading lists at more than 100 American colleges, and in a dozen foreign languages???including Gujarati, Hindi and Tamil?continues to jangle 'cash registers around the world...
Curriculum. Freshmen will spend the first year trying to understand "modern western civilization?its literature, its art, its political, economic, and scientific bases." They will have "tool courses"? mathematics, languages???if such instruction seems necessary for work they may later be interested in. "Exploratory courses" will give them some taste of a field in which they may later specialize. Bright students may enter the Senior Division (upperclassmen) after one year of preparation, stupid ones may take three years...
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