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Sizer's reputation as an innovator will be tested at Andover, which, like the other traditional New England boarding schools, is suffering from declining applications and dwindling financial resources. "With the likelihood of increased state funding, high schools will become more and more alike," Sizer said yesterday. "That puts responsibility on private schools to come up with new alternatives...
...could live an entire lifetime in, say, Tel-Aviv or Haifa, and never be set upon by hostile Arabs, never hear a shot, not the least gunfire, and one's closest brush with death would in all likelihood be on the roads, where cars are driven with the same reckless excitability that seems to grace the entire population. It is indeed true that, as the Israelis never tire of saying, "You are a great deal safer anywhere in Israel than on the streets of New York." But this confidence in day-to-day security, this state of ostensible normalcy, does...
...Difference. Board Chairman George Boldt said that the contract terms were "obviously unreasonably inconsistent" with the guideline. In fact, what made the aerospace agreement different from those of the mining and railroad industries was the lesser likelihood of a strike. At the time of the earlier decisions, coal miners had already been off their jobs for six weeks, seriously depleting the nation's coal supply, and signalmen were clearly ready to begin an economy-crippling shutdown of U.S. railroads. By contrast, the nation's ailing aerospace companies have been forced to lay off more than 180,000 workers...
Many a lesser Picasso, of course, is still better than many a lesser man's best, and the conventional response is that Picasso may yet surprise us. Perhaps, but the likelihood dwindles, and in any case it no longer matters: the issue of final greatness in art does not pivot on surprise but rather on its opposite-the authority of the still center. You cannot invade history, as Picasso has done, without some idea of what to do with it, and Picasso's aim rarely faltered. It was to reconcile history with Eros, to live as both gratified...
Several factors are at work to reduce the likelihood of such an explosion. The Indian-Soviet friendship treaty, signed early in August, deters India from waging war without consulting the Soviets. At the same time, rising discontent and political and economic pressures within West Pakistan have also placed restraints on Strongman Yahya Khan and his military regime. Nonetheless, war remains a distinct possibility. As Mrs. Gandhi said last week at a public meeting in South India: "We must be prepared for any eventuality...