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...sought new methods, they made one horrifying mistake: they allowed students to dictate the needs. Sesame Street may be America's last vestige of fundamental learning. The ivory towers have been razed and replaced by Towers of Babel, where the Lucas Tanner Method of Unstructured Free Expression holds sway...
...respectable advertiser, for example, would fail to identify himself when he places an advertisement in order to sway public opinion; yet the return address on the envelope is the only identification of Gallo's advertisements when they arrive at The Crimson. By the same token, no respectable newspaper publishes unidentified political advertising. The company's first advertisement was published unidentified because of a technical error; The Crimson provided a standard identification line on the second advertisement...
...doubtful that Greece has ever experienced free and honest elections. The party in power traditionally collects a substantive advantage, of between five and ten per cent of the vote, on its psychological influence. In the past, coercion has held sway. And the electoral system has reinforced the right--although the quantity of votes required by the leading party previously measured at only 15 per cent. In the 1963 and 1967 elections, George Papandreou defied the stacked deck, almost toppling it; the events of last summer jarred it. But if Caramanlis prevails tomorrow its structure will remain, in the interest...
Unlike U.S. cities, where the mayors hold sway, Paris is dominated by President of France. During the years De Gaulle was in power, for example, there was little change in skyline; le grand Charles liked the as it was. By contrast, Georges Pompidou wanted to update Paris-"Manhatanize" it, his critics said. For five years bulldozers growled in the streets as he ordered up one vast project after another. Some 150 high-rise buildings were either built or planned. One wide superhighway girdled the city; another autoroute slashed through its heart along the Right Bank of the River Seine...
...fellows, and unable to open himself up to his father or the girl he lacked the courage to marry. At age 25 he has decided to leave the dead-end of village life for the land of air-conditioning and color TV, where "the devil himself holds sway and lust is everywhere indulged in shamelessly." On the eve of his departure, he reviews for the last time his unresolved memories of the life he is leaving and his hopes and dreams of the life to come...