Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That euphoric vision of undergraduate education is put forward by Mayhew in Campus 1980 (Delacorte Press; $6.95), a collection of future-oriented essays by 17 U.S. educators. No romantic, Mayhew bases his predictions on trends already discernible. He believes that technology will help to bring about the new accent on the individual needs of students. National admissions centers will match students by computer with the college that best suits their interests, allow them to move freely from campus to campus. Short-range jets will enable professors to serve consortia of small colleges that agree to share faculty and facilities...
Reassuring Words. While the Soviets were trying to create at least a modicum of government over the recalcitrant Czechoslovaks, the destiny of the nation's reformist vision of Communism was being debated behind closed doors in both Prague and Moscow. Dubcek and Cernik were flown off to Moscow in a Soviet military jet. The Czechoslovaks at first broadcast reports that Dubcek had been killed, but that was cleared up in one of the many weird, almost unreal vignettes of the week. Dubcek's mother marched in to see the local Soviet commander in Bratislava, demanding to know what the Russians...
...also turned to pastels for sketching, and experimented with powdered colors. Success came early and easy, but it frightened him. "I must look out," he said. "Well-meaning patrons may disturb my routine." By 1914, however, the spotlight had shifted from post-impressionism to the angry, angular new vision of fauves and cubists. Vuillard stopped exhibiting and retreated into nearly three decades of private work. Only in 1938, two years before his death, did he break his self-imposed withdrawal and consent to a large Paris exhibition...
Gary attempts to explain not only German history but most of the history of Western civilization with this morbidly fascinating sexual metaphor. It is insufficient to the task, but somehow that does not seem very important when matched against the savagery of Gary's vision. Lily is described by a German admirer as "a being of exquisite sensitivity. Culture! That's what she lived for. She walked in beauty! She inspired heroism and sacrifice! Our students were taught to love her, even in kindergarten!" To which Genghis Cohn replies sardonically with a reminiscence of the moment when...
...more, he can lead you there." This modest book is a collection of excerpts from Gardner's speeches and writings, including quotes from his two earlier works, Excellence and Self-Renewal. In it, as he deals with contemporary social problems, Gardner demonstrates a depth of moral vision that is matched by a provocative...