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Since 1945, a number of trends have combined to force undergraduate education away from the broad conception of the Redbook and toward a narrower, more functional conception. The rapid rise in admissions, and in the number of students graduating with honors and going on to graduate school, has lent strength to a point of view which regards Harvard College less as a general preparation for life than a way station on the road to still higher education...
...complex churchman who is facing complex 20th century problems. A Cambridge-trained scholar and theologian, he came to Canterbury with a reputation for both deep spirituality and donnish wit-a man unwilling to compromise his own stern theology, but so fond of epigrams that he gives them up for Lent. Frankly at home in high-church ceremony, he nonetheless seems at times the amiable country parson, enjoying simple amusement in self-deflation. Archbishop Ramsey always signs his name "Michael Cantuar"-the traditional Latin abbreviation for Canterbury -but he sometimes autographs pictures "Michael, Archbishop of Canterbury," joking that the longer title...
European Expectations. The services that factors offer their clients are some times more valuable than money. Factors keep teams of experts checking on both their clients and their clients' customers, feed their clients a steady stream of advice and business tips. In one recent maneuver, Textile Banking Co. lent $400,000 to a builder so he could buy carpeting from a manufacturer for which T.B.C. is the factor...
...lucky chance, Resnais and Robbe-Grillet colaborated on L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad. The novelist suffered from a geometric sense of details, and the director had just the flair for composition to give those beautiful but boring paragraphs visual substance. Perhaps more importants, the author's penchant for ambiguity lent itself perfectly to the director's much-praised deftness with flashbacks...
Wonderful things happen (sometimes) when a painting gets stolen. Last year the City Art Museum of St. Louis lent its $150,000 Cézanne. The Artist's Sister, to the museum at Aix-en-Provence in southern France, only to have it purloined in a comic-opera art theft. Last week St. Louis' Cézanne was back and on display, and worth $75,000 more than before...