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Unlike an American summer camp, Mon Club has no reveille or rigid schedule. Guests may rise any time between 7:30 and 9 and go to one of the two dining rooms (one for little children and one for big) to choose their breakfasts and have all the orange juice they can drink. After that there are only two compulsory activities: morning calisthenics and participating in one sport. The latter may include swimming, horseback riding, bicycling, fishing or kayaking in the nearby Petit Morin River, as well as more strenuous games such as soccer and tennis...
BRAZIL IS notorious for its continuous political upheavals and its rigid censorship, but its filmmakers are now in the forefront of the newest "new cinema," making politically relevant and thought-provoking films after years of stagnation and American imports. Many of the best of these films are simply banned and never heard of again, other are either too avant-garde or too boring to survive the first few showings. Macunaima, after a few cuts by the censors, has managed to avoid all these fates, and is now the most popular home product in Brazil's film history...
...already robbed the Communist regimes of the propaganda argument among their own people: that only Communism and Soviet power offer protectionfrom "revenge-seeking" West Germans. Relaxation of East-West tensions might also expose Eastern Europeans to Western influences that could make them far more dissatisfied with their own rigid social and political order and more eager for Western-style consumer goods...
Right away Gray let it be known that J. Edgar's rigid rules on agents' appearance were rescinded: "I've no hangup on white shirts," he says. As a result, mod shirts and ties are blossoming. Hair to the collar and sideburns to the bottom of the ear are now permitted. Gray has established a special division to recruit more black, Spanish-speaking and other minority-group agents. The new division will also hear agents' grievances, which should be a boon to bureau morale, and will help in the agency's pioneering recruitment of women...
...education experiments; for now, it is more crucial to begin working out that theory in action and to demonstrate the University's concern for people. Though these first steps, we may learn to implement the values to be incorporated in a coherent educational philosophy. By experimenting in less rigid forms of instruction, in making planning and administration more democratic, and in improving the relationships of undergraduates with graduate students and faculty, Harvard may work slowly toward a humanistic philosophy and toward a more socially responsible and self-fulfilling form of education...