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Over the past few months, the researchers, Olds in particular, have created a new dream. It is neither a "Crazy School" nor an "Instant School," but a "Tri-School"--a plan to break down, at least in part, the idea that education should take place in schools at all. And, unlike its two predecessors, this plan will be given an actual trial, beginning in September...
...individual research projects, on the other hand, will probably thrive. Most of the researchers are eager to win the co-operation of local school systems and to work in them. Although the Shadow Faculty has shifted its theoretical model from the Crazy School to the Instant School to the Tri-School, the individual research projects have survived and have developed continuities of their...
...feel pressured to try solidifying what we're doing," Olds admits, "to concentrate on the results of our projects and try to improve the tri-school model." In other words, the Executive Committee has been asking to see some tangible results from the Shadow Faculty's debating and theorizing...
...sure, a few exceptions, notably The New Yorker's Robert Shaplen, 49, the Saigon correspondent most universally respected by both his colleagues and Washington observers. Close behind him in both respect and expertise is the Reporter's Warner. Both have painstakingly documented the myriad activities of Thich Tri Quang as he moves above and below the surface to extend his influence...
Others have not been so canny. Press coverage, says the Washington Star's Richard Critchfield, has played into the hands of Buddhism's political kingmakers. "I don't think Tri Quang would have really existed without the American press," he says. "He has fooled an awful lot of people for a long time into thinking he speaks for the Buddhists of South Viet Nam. Now, I know he only pretends to speak for about one and a half million people." Critchfield also questions the immolations: "My impression is that these just aren't voluntary suicides...