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...education--whether state-run, or private at the misnamed "public schools," is rooted in competition: despite the introduction of comprehensive state schools which take all abilities (and thus avoid social divisions), children are still "tracked" internally. The "public schools"--the institutions that produced the rulers of the Empire--still thrive and take a disproportionate number of places at universities--expecially Oxbridge...
Right now, the Square isn't exactly ghosttown USA. In fact, any football game at Harvard stadium on your basic autumnal Saturday brings people in from all over. The businessmen thrive on the crowds who cram into the various muffin/coffee shops, shoe stores, chic boutiques and bookstores. Although the next five years will be painful, the merchants also are looking forward to the Square's new facade...
...losing badly); everyone is forever volunteering for something: rolling bandages, running canteens-feeling helpful, a part of things. Contrary to the narcissistic sects now working the Pop culture, plumping egos like pillows, the individual spirit flourishes best in useful contact with others. And the collective spirit cannot thrive when individuals are all arcing around in their small green capsules of self-regard...
Flea markets thrive on nostalgia. Explains Susan Pressly, a New York City nurse and a frequent visitor to New Jersey's Lambertville Antique Flea Market: "You can go there and touch something from your childhood." When Shirley Temple ruled moviedom in the '30s, small blue drinking glasses bearing her pixie face were packed in countless Wheaties boxes. The glasses now fetch $9 each at MacSonny's flea market in North Reading, Mass. Anything old sells: wedding dresses, shoes, and, for collectors, Coca-Cola signs, beer cans and comic books. Says Bill McCrenice, an antique-store owner...
...without his being forewarned of it. The frightened reaction can be shot now and cut into the screen version. Nothing more strikingly shows that art has left the realm of the 'beautiful semblance' which, so far, had been taken to be the only sphere where art could thrive...