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Reading authorities concluded that the ability to read at extreme speeds was a rare gift that nobody could "teach." Most of these experts still assert this belief today. The Harvard reading people, however, take a broader middle position. They hold that in the setting of college work one must provide as much for the improvement of conventional reading skills as for the breakthrough into extreme speeds for those people capable of it. Says Roderic C. Hodgins, who has taught Harvard's reading course more than anybody else in the past five years, "It is like teaching somebody to ride...
...taking of drugs, especially marijuana and L.S.D. (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide), is becoming a fad among college and high school students who wish to assert their independence by breaking the law and offending their parents, and who wish to experiment with new physical and psychological sensations...
...today no such situation exists. Public education in the United States is second to none, and no one is foolish enough to assert that people attend prep schools because of educational equality back home. For, indeed, where do the bulk of such students come? From Brookline and Glen Cove, from Darien and Shaker Heights--the very areas with some of the best public secondary schools in the nation. The graduates of these schools come to Cambridge and New Haven and find themselves in no way less "prepared" than their neighbors who raced off to what Dean Sizer calls "independent" schools...
...Zeligs' terms, the Communist Party -- with its potential, real and imagined, for secrecy and excitement--was the most prominent brother-figure in Chambers' life. He attached himself to an institutional embodiment of strength and masculinity, then broke with it in a dramatic attempt to assert these same qualities within himself...
...wherefore. Y admits to himself that he sought out the Henhouse; that he is responsible for allowing it to become a prison; that when he visualized himself as another Hen, what he really wanted was to remain a part of the system. Finally, he realizes that before he can assert his autonomy, he must relinquish the whole institutional Henhouse world and reject the paternalistic hand of psychiatry, which first helped him but now threatens to smother him. Y's journey has taken him from neurotic dependency and rebellion to a point where he can think...