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...John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan (NewYork: Oxford University Press, 1932), p.60...
WARTIME by Paul Fussell (Oxford University; $19.95). Humankind, wrote T.S. Eliot, cannot bear very much reality. In this richly detailed historical study of American and British behavior during World War II, Fussell argues that the horror was of such magnitude that participants -- civilians as much as soldiers -- survived it only by reliance on euphemism and illusions: our lads were all brave heroes, for example, while theirs were sadistic thugs. Fussell has a sharp eye for the bawdry and the Catch-22 absurdities of combat. But hard to find in his barrages of withering contempt is much sense that this...
Adopting a variant of the British exam system would also ensure accountability. At Oxford and Cambridge, students complete a large amount of study without exams and then undergo a comprehensive evaluation at the end of their programs. If Harvard were reluctant to accept foreign exam scores, it might allow students to leave for a year and then take one or two broad exams upon their return...
...better model of the satellite system can once again be found at Stanford, which maintains miniature campuses in Florence, Vienna, Oxford, Japan, Spain and Tours, France. Half of Stanford's undergraduates and many professors take advantage of this network to gain on-site experience in their area of study...
...York: Oxford University Press...