Word: masters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the help of manifestos issued by student revolutionary groups, Faure has set aides to work on a "master" education law that will be proposed to the Assembly next month. He plans to recommend the creation of smaller universities (10,000 to 12,000 students each) with American-style academic departments and a de-emphasis of lectures in favor of more "research, discussion, dialogue." He also hopes to prepare more students for these universities by accenting modern science and living languages, rather than classics and Latin, in the lycees (secondary schools...
CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). Gilbert Highet, critic, scholar and author, attempts to solve a minor but amusing artistic puzzle concerning the identity of the bridegroom in Peasant Wedding, a 16th century painting by Flemish Master Pieter Bruegel...
...today, the man whom the Viennese called "the master of pianissimo" has a resounding worldwide reputation. "Probably," says Conductor Robert Craft, "there isn't a composer writing now, or hardly a composition written-even electronic-in which his influence can't be traced...
Married. Erie Stanley Gardner, 79, master of the mysteries (more than 150 million Perry Mason and other books printed to date); and Agnes Jean Bethell, sixtyish, his secretary for 40 years; both for the second time; in Washoe Valley...
...years old and has written a million books, or a million years old and has written 87 books. Anyhow the figures strain the imagination-but not more so than this potty tale about a bogus butler who sets out to burgle a Worcestershire bank. Connoisseurs of the old master's brand of daffy brouhaha will savor it to the last page. For those who don't trust any writer over 80-well, maybe they should sample a little vintage Wodehouse first, like a whiff of Carry On, Jeeves! (1925), or the tiniest dollop of Love Among the Chickens...