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Such problems now plague the U.S., which leads the world in mass schooling. Student discontent, failing public schools, financial pressures-all these lend new weight to gadflies who preach a new heresy. The best way to reform U.S. education, they say, is to supplant compulsory attendance with voluntary learning...
Staying in Tune. The fact that jazz is being marked and measured by the schools will lend it a certain stability that it never had before. The big danger, of course, is that, like so many other folkloric subjects in academia, jazz could wind up fully preserved but essentially dead on the page...
...Rennie Davis & Co. don't know what is in the heads of the people who go to work every day, maybe someone should try whispering the message quietly in their ears: "You are demonstrating in the wrong city, you idiots. Try Hanoi." Maybe our semisacred fourth estate should lend an ear to that message a little more often...
...departed officials were hardliners, opposed to Sadat's flexible and apparently pacific foreign policy. Their removal could lend powerful impetus to the good will established between Washington and Cairo in the wake of Secretary of State William Rogers' visit two weeks ago. Such a development could only rattle Moscow's foreign ministry-and perhaps Jerusalem's as well...
...things that long John Kenneth Galbraith has been, besides U.S. Ambassador to India, is a trustee of Harvard's Radcliffe College. This may or may not lend weight to the opinions on women he expressed last week to an interviewer (female) for the London Times. "I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting women whose minds are wasted on a 'home,' " said Economist Galbraith. "Better have an affair," he says. "It isn't so permanent, and you keep your job." Marital bliss? "The happiest time of anyone's life is just...