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Harvard has a duty to establish a research institute to honor W.E.B. Du Bois '88 for his work towards establishing black studies, a black historian said last night...
...timed. After the first-round results were in, much of France seemed visibly relieved that the Gaullists had survived with no more damage than expected. Shopping picked up in the fashionable boutiques along Paris' Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, ending a slump that had begun with the onset of the campaign two months ago. The strident warnings from the tough-minded Communist leader, Georges Marchais, that "strikes will multiply" if Gaullism continued seemed particularly ill-timed. A walkout of civilian air controllers had snarled air traffic all over France, and was at least partly responsible...
Hesse, even in his latter days of so-called realism and classicism, refused to let go entirely of his fruitless, banal recherche du temps perdu. The last piece included in this volume, "The Interrupted Class," drifts at times into the same melancholy desire for the carefree, innocent days of youth. But here some resolution of the conflict between innocence and experience finally appears: Hesse declares innocent youth a sham. While it's no transcendence into Blake's realm of "organized innocence," as one might expect from the spiritualist Hesse, it is a sign of some growth, however late...
Though many people outside Illinois viewed Kerner as a progressive, energetic Governor, he was in fact mostly good looks. His main accomplishments were getting the Atomic Energy Commission to build a multimillion-dollar atom smasher in western Du Page County and appointing a board to map long-range goals for education in Illinois He nevertheless gained such a reputation that Lyndon Johnson appointed him to head a presidential commission on civil disorders. Among the character witnesses at his trial was retired General William Westmoreland, who described him as a man of "impeccable character...
...still writes with Victorian verve, and each of her chapters ends with an upbeat sentence that impels the reader on. But Miss du Maurier's latest novel lacks the suspense, pageantry and ro mantic insight of Rebecca, French man's Creek or even the recent best-selling House on the Strand...