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Nobody supports this humanitarian thesis more strongly than Judith Martin. "Good manners are not just for the very rich," she says. "Good manners are for everyone. Good manners are free." She was correspondingly appalled when Reagan's first protocol officer, Leonore Annenberg, curtsied to Prince Charles on his 1981 visit to Washington. "If there is any basic principle of American life, it is that we do not recognize that anyone is born at a higher level than anyone else. We do not bend the knee to anyone except God, or in some cases his representative. I found it incredibly...
...credit for this TV-for-credit boomlet goes largely to the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1981 the Annenberg School established a fund of $150 million, to be parceled out by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting over a period of 15 years, for innovative programming that would bring college-level courses to the home viewer. The initial five series in the Annenberg/CPB Project are making their debuts this fall. The two most ambitious are The Constitution: That Delicate Balance, which returned last month for 13 episodes, following four pilot segments aired last year...
More than 400 institutions in 40 states, ranging from small community colleges to large state universities, are offering at least one of the Annenberg-funded courses this fall. In order to get credit, students must read a textbook and study guide, prepared under Annenberg auspices, and pass a final examination. But in most cases they need never set foot on campus...
...professors are topflight, the courses of study use the latest research, and the schedules are rigorous. "You have to be a highly self-disciplined person to take a telecourse," asserts John Flanagan, associate dean for nontraditional studies at Eastern Kentucky University, which is offering two of the Annenberg courses for credit this fall. "They go on whether you can study or not, whether you're sick or out of town. They're relentless...
When Walter Annenberg sold the Inquirer in 1969 to a forerunner of the Knight-Ridder chain, the city's dominant paper was the rival Bulletin, which advertised, more or less accurately, "In Philadelphia, nearly everyone reads the Bulletin." The Inquirer was uncreative, undistinguished-it even employed an investigative reporter who took money to suppress stories-and in danger of dying an unmourned death...