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WHAT WENT WRONG? Despite the dazzling array of outside talent that channel 7 imported, it couldn't win the audience's favor. The hiring of Ellis and Young probably won't fare any better over time. The public wants more...
...even bigger demonstration took place in Wroclaw, where up to 20,000 people turned out in the face of a formidable array of police and army units. According to one report, the authorities had sent some 15,000 extra police troops to Wroclaw in anticipation of major trouble. The main battle started in front of the city opera house. As in Gdansk, demonstrators erected barricades and hurled Molotov cocktails at police vans, setting at least one on fire. Some residents even dropped flowerpots and bottles from their windows on passing ZOMO troops...
...Calvi's luck soon ran out. In the late 1970s, suspicious of the way in which he was operating in the international money market, the Bank of Italy ordered him to put his confusing array of banks under the single name of Ambrosiano. Some Italians also became nervous about another Calvi acquisition: his purchase of 40% interest in Italy's 73-year-old Rizzoli publishing company and with it a piece of the Milan-based Corriere della Sera, Italy's largest, most respected daily newspaper. Businessmen who were already uneasy about Calvi's connections with...
...dyslexic in high school has special problems. After years of being told that he is slow or stupid, he can have a very poor self-image. Forman provides an array of sports training to improve physical self-confidence. But the biggest challenge for teachers is to devise a curriculum commensurate with the student's real intelligence. At Forman, students listen to a recording of, say, Romeo and Juliet while reading the play. Computers are becoming an important teaching tool because they promote sequential learning and logical development. For the student able to handle calculus but not the sequences...
...well. The age of civility became the age of charisma and false "intimacy." Politicians were judged as personalities and acted accordingly; so did musical virtuosos. Narcissism became the basic mental illness of modern times. This may sound overly schematic, but Sennett ornamented his provocative thesis with a rich array of illustrations on what kind of makeup French ladies used under the ancien regime and why London theater audiences wept when a hero died, and why the malls of modern shopping centers often stand empty...