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Though some of Rickover's aging defenders have left Congress in recent years, he doubtless hoped for a sympathetic ruling from President Reagan, at 70 no spring chicken himself. Asked about Rickover, Reagan reminded reporters that William Gladstone was Britain's Prime Minister at 83. But at week's end White House sources said Reagan had decided that Rickover should retire. Apparently to soften the blow to the proud sailor, Reagan plans to ask him to serve as a White House adviser on nuclear energy...
...pressed to disagree. But this trend to pre-professionalism at private universities can be described as nothing more than an attempt by students to be "winners" in Giamatti's terms, an attempt to deal with the current economic situation--as the Yale alumni who heard his speech on athletics doubtless did. In their time--and experience that intrinsic satisfaction (I imagine) that comes from being rich. The "civic effort" can come later--as it does from "winning" Yale alumni who can afford to be generous...
Giamatti's ideas are welded together by his forceful yet delicate style. Nearly every paragraph is quotable. Though his highly-publicized condemnation of the Moral Majority does not appear in this book (it doubtless will in his next), and though he is more concerned with the civic than the social dimension of education. Giamatti does not stay mute on contemporary problems. In "Power, Politics and a Sense of History"--a remarkably presumptuous title for a 4000-word essay--he declares...
...light-viewing families wanted to see more drama, dance and music on TV than did families more accustomed to hovering around the set. Not surprisingly, Arbitron also discovered that those very same light viewers tend to make and spend more money than do the heavy viewers, a point that doubtless did not escape executives at Black Rock. The appeal to advertisers, the network reasoned, would prove irresistible...
Some English 70 veterans doubtless remember Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton's dark and dour New England novel whose poetry lies in the starkness of its prose and of the events that torture its three main characters. The same people might have looked askance at the posters that said Ethan Frome was going up at the Ex. How do you dramatize a book like that? "You do think of it as something to read, not see," allows producer Dorothea Hanson...