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Much of Western Europe has been seized by a fervor to expand higher education and to reform it along U.S. lines-interdisciplinary cooperation, more full professors, rotating departmental command. Italy's current five-year plan calls for a reorganization of universities, now beset with frequent strikes by students and teaching assistants. Many Europeans hope to emulate what a Common Market Eurocrat calls "the magic American mobility between campus, government and industry...
...than five minutes and that the next morning the inevitable posters appeared, some of them reporting that factory workers had made trouble in the capital's western district. Across China, the Red Guards have met with increasingly stiff resistance in their drive to spread Mao's revolutionary fervor. "One learns how to make a revolution by making it," Mao has said, "just as one learns to swim by swimming." For the Red Guards, the swimming seems more and more to be upstream...
...army helped organize the youth into coherent bands, equipped them with uniforms and badges, and sent them out to give their elders what-for in a lark whose attractiveness any teeny-bopper or Berkeley rebel would instantly recognize. Mao thus hoped to fire with revolutionary fervor the very generation that he felt Russia had lost to "revisionism," the generation of Red Chinese that Dean Rusk once expressed the hope might be "recuperated." The Red Guards were not, after all, a new idea in history; Germany had its Hitler Jugend. Millions of Red Guards poured into Peking and other big Chinese...
...behind all the rhetoric, there is the war itself. A conflict of controversial objectives and disputed morality, it inspires no crusading fervor among those who may be called upon to give their lives. Few can think happily of making the ultimate secrifice in a war that seems to involve no clear or vital national interest. And although being drafted is not equivalent to being sent to Vietnam, one is often equated with the other in their minds...
Julia could not be more delighted. "Chinese cooking is marvelous," she says. Not that she has any intention of cooking Oriental style herself. "I will never do anything but French cooking," she says with Francophilic fervor. "It's much the most interesting and the most challenging and the best eating. There are so many wonderful French dishes; I don't think I'll ever live long enough to do them...