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...instruction. Epps sees Harvard moving to adapt itself to modern problems by changing the emphasis in existing academic structures and perhaps adding new institutions, but insists that this be done wholly academically, with a disciplinary approach. Explaining this attitude, Epps recalls that Harvard responded to the demands of post-World War II society by developing new institutions such as the Russian Research Center, and that now the University can similarly change to deal with new concerns such as ecology, delivery of medical care, poverty, and minority-group problems...
Died. John Dos Passes, 74, novelist-chronicler of the post-World War I generation (see THE NATION...
...educators had almost no choice. Faced with the problem of educating the children produced in the post-World War II "baby boom," nearly every college has sought-often desperately-to expand its facilities. Since 1960 the University of California has added three entirely new campuses and 77 major buildings on its six older campuses to cope with an increase in enrollment of 58,000. The State University of New York, which in 1962 had small and relatively unknown campuses scattered around the state, has almost tripled in size to serve its present 195,000 students...
Chicago has long prided itself on being an architectural showcase, and its residents have delighted in topping New York City in almost anything. True, Chicago lagged behind New York in the post-World War II building boom for many years-but lately builders have been reaching for the skies...
...literature of the South. Yet she has, in fact, brought the Southern mentality west. In a revealing essay about her native Sacramento Valley, she mourns the passing of a comfortable, interlocking gentry that were her ancestry. They built manor houses amidst their vast fields of hops and tomatoes, ignoring post-World War II newcomers who brought real estate developments and aerospace factories-until the parvenus usurped their world. Like Faulkner, Didion has an overwhelming awareness of human corruption and a sense of unfathomable doom...