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The subject of these remarks is France's first great experiment in open admissions education, the "University of Paris VIII," better known as Vincennes because it is housed in the former royal hunting forest at the eastern end of the Paris Metro line. Even when Vincennes opened in 1970...
To some extent the experiment fulfilled its promise. Over the years enrollment grew from 8,000 to 32,000. Today more than 40% of the students hold full-time jobs outside class. But the school's open admissions policy and popular courses proved its undoing, for it attracted not...
All the furniture of the American myths is being dismantled and stored. Psychologically, if not yet financially, a stale air of foreclosure has wafted around. It is not that the U.S. is broke or now bereft of such resources as its grain, its amazing capacity to nourish life. But Americans...
To calm the spirit, Byron suggested, apply "rum and true religion." Alas for Georgian simplicities. The rum has turned to water, the religion to immersion. Relentlessly, Americans have sought spiritual calm in steam baths, saunas, Jacuzzi whirlpools and hot tubs. Now, in the quest for tranquillity, some of them are...
Replacing Land as chief executive officer will be William J. McCune Jr., 64, a Polaroid colleague since 1939 and an engineer. The new management will probably stop promotion of Polavision for the general public, though the company may continue production of the movie film. McCune is also expected to move...