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Despite the burden of such a legacy, Russia is changing faster and in more ways than at any time in its history. Instead of the fiery prophet Lenin, the obsessed and brutal Stalin or the bub bly and unpredictable Khrushchev, it is led today by an oligarchy of sober, cautious bureaucrats who embody the country's new striving for respectability. Under the aegis of Premier Aleksei Nikolaevich Kosygin, 63, whose hound-dog countenance is better known in the West than the two or three others with whom he shares power, the government is experimenting with economic liberalization and cautiously...
...deficiencies of the Boston schools have been recounted before-most notably in Peter Schrag's sober, well-researched Village School Downtown, which was published last April. Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Theodore Sizer contends that Ko zol's recital of the ills of the Boston schools could be duplicated in many other big U.S. school systems. By overstating and underdocumenting his blustery crusade, Kozol is pushing Boston's regressive school officials into an even more defensive stance rather than inspiring them to correct much that is undeniably wrong. Indeed, School Superintendent William Ohrenberger dismisses the entire...
Restoring the Glow. The time for sober second thoughts came only as Chicagoans realized that while their city was rapidly growing, the number of its theaters and concert stages was actually shrinking. Sparking a drive that began in 1960 to rehabilitate the Auditorium was Mrs. John V. Spachner, a tenacious and seasoned Chicago fund raiser. Undaunted by an earlier estimate that had pegged the cost of restoration at $4,000,000, Bea Spachner enlisted the aid of an enthusiastic Louis Sullivan fan, Architect Harry Weese, 52. Weese resurveyed the building, reported that it could be brought back to mint condition...
...educated guesswork for such clients as the U.S. Air Force, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense. Sociologist Anthony Wiener, 36, is a member of Hudson's research staff. Their book, relentlessly technical and deliberately undramatic, is as far removed from Jules Vernean fantasy as sober analytical methodology can carry it. Kahn and Wiener cannot unlock the future's doors, but they know where to knock. 50 in the Club. The authors develop what they call "scenarios," or hypothetical future trends, which are projected in every conceivable direction from the known past and present. The result...
...anyone believes that it may be a crowbar with which to pry Harvard completely out of its connection with the government and the war, I am certani he is due for a disappointment. Nevertheless there exists a substantial middle range of worthwhile possibilities between these two extremes. In a sober, responsible, yet probing manner such a commission might make clear to the university community the nature of its connections with the outside world. It is obvious enough that the source of search funds has a great deal to do with what questions get asked in the scholarly community, even...