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...decided to cut the boy's skull across, from temple to temple. This Surgeon Schoenfeld did last week, wedging the halves apart by three-fifths of an inch, knowing that scar tissue would close the transverse gap if the child lived, hoping that the brain would grow forward & backward as Nature must have intended. Next day, convalescent Alden Vorrath's cheerfulness promised well for his future intelligence, well for Surgeon Schoenfeld's daring surgery...
...businessmen and schoolmen agreed that: 1) U. S. education in recent years has paid too much attention to methods of teaching and not enough to social problems; 2) business has been backward in adjusting itself to new technological conditions. But when they began to discuss what should be done about it, the debate grew bitter. Businessman Houston warned the educators they were flirting with dangerous, collectivistic ideas. More bluntly, Businessman Jones charged them with letting businessmen down, demanded that they do something to remove the impression prevalent among businessmen that educators were "persistently questioning the continued usefulness to society...
...straight news out of the Soviet Union, editorialized last week: "Once more the outside world learns what has been happening in Russia only when a Government decree stops or reverses a Government policy. The present edict forbidding further expulsions of farmers from collective farms is like a searchlight thrown backward over a dark road. It admits that expulsions were carried out on a large scale by 'callous and arbitrary' party functionaries, that the majority of these expulsions were unjustified, and that families were driven from the farms when the fathers had been recruited by State agents to take...
...rivers of our national life will flow onward and not backward. Change as such one need not fear. It is the temper in which changes are born that matters. That temper implies a readiness to recognize the claims of others to civilized living, a willingness to submit the means for the attainment of that end to the traditional methods of discussion and debate, and an avowal so to arrange our institutional life as to make it realize, so far as humanly possible, the content of the new and growing liberty...
Your adjectives backward and primitive might justly be applied to the Mayo and Tarahumari Indians who live in the mountains of Sonora and Chihuahua but would you be satisfied to have American culture judged by the hillbillies of Kentucky and Tennessee or the crackers of Georgia and Florida? And I believe that even today you can find within fifty miles of Manhattan Island . . . plenty of backward and primitive people...