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Last week Harvard's former President James B. Conant suggested a way out of the dilemma, a way to national standards without onerous control and without "wholesale bribery of the states by the Federal Government." In a speech at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Conant envisioned a nationwide adviso ry council, approved by Congress, to be called the "Standing Group on Educational Strategy." Chosen by state legislatures, its 50-odd members would develop education "guidelines" on a national basis and persuade state lawmakers to adopt them. Chairman of the group would be a newly created U.S. Secretary...
...mother. Straining for Brechtian detachment, Director Jerome Robbins achieves a kind of laconic toughness in which the actors hold back, rather than banish, their tears. This misses Brecht's sense of the dire human predicament too deep for tears. Brecht tended to use sex for comic relief, but Barbara Harris' sly burlesque of a prostitute is the wrong kind of funny for this play. Eric Bentley's translation is fluently colloquial if occasionally a shade too matter-of-fact for a playwright who was always a poet. Despite these shortcomings, playgoers jaded on dramatic cream puffs ought...
Soon Woodside got to thinking this was all a bit too showy. "Typical nouveau riche" sniffed a neighbor. Hurt, Galvin packed up his Irish-born wife and five children in 1958 and moved to a 35,000-acre ranch near Santa Barbara. Ostensibly, he wanted to offer riding room for the U.S. Olympic riding team, of which his daughter Trish was a star. That seemed fine-until last October, when John A. T. Galvin abruptly shut down the ranch, closed down the school he had started for his children, loaded up his prize Irish horses and left for Dublin...
They will be initiated March 25, along with the seniors elected last November. Barbara W. Tuchman, author of The Guns of August, will speak at the ceremony...
...Barbara Axe seemed faintly disappointed that the babies were all girls. But she had another kind of compensation. Around Lima, scarcely one out of 20 mothers watches the birth of her own children, but she had combined her curiosity with her condition to hit a 50 million-to-1 shot and see the delivery of her own quadruplets...