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...Espagne, and from Dali's hallucinated Cannibalisme d'Automne. But most of the work by French artists in support of the Republicans and the Popular Front now seems pedestrian; French painting had no equivalent to Malraux's Espoir or Georges Bernanos' Les Grands Cimetières sous la Lune...
...defeat, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac enjoined his followers to "keep France from going the road of adventure that the ideologues of the Socialist Party have chosen." Giscard himself confined his activities to a few campaign appearances on behalf of the center-right candidate in his home district of Chamalières...
...Glanville, a partner at Lazard Frères. "But I have been watching M.B.A.s in this business for over 20 years, and I have found a great majority of them immature in their judgments. They are inclined to make strong judgments without a background of experience and humility. You don't really learn anything until you've been wrong a few times. If we shut down the business schools for ten years, we would not suffer a very great loss...
...Open University, guide students in their reading of original source material. On page 44 of one handbook, for instance, Balsdon notes briskly, "I cannot imagine your having the time" to read all 77 pages on the Emperor Augustus, but he adds: "One document, however, you must read, the Res Gestae of Augustus." The teaching texts frequently direct students to consult particular portions of their main source books, or to jot down answers to questions. Maryland University and Broadcasting Center officials, who jointly direct the nonprofit N.U.C., say that many adults prefer such guided study at home to night-school classes...
DIED. André Meyer, 81, Paris-born investment banker who dominated Wall Street's aggressive Lazard Frères & Co. for 34 years; of pneumonia; in Lausanne, Switzerland. A star at Lazard's Paris affiliate before fleeing France in 1940, Meyer became senior partner at the firm's Manhattan headquarters in 1944 and turned a cautious house into a corporate merger machine instrumental in the making of such giants as RCA and ITT. A compulsive worker, he amassed a fortune estimated at half a billion dollars, became an adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and gave millions...