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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West Germany were becoming louder. Wrote London's wise Economist: "It is quite impossible to think of neutralizing Germany . . . Germany must therefore be defended. Indeed it is in Germany that the defense of the West must begin, and that it might fatally end." To overcome Western Europe's inevitable resistance to arming Germany, military men have suggested that a Western German army be placed under the command of Western Union headquarters...
After such a poor season as 1949, and when the local press is running story after story on "what to do about Harvard football," no responsible official should say anything until the hysteria dies down. The next football season doesn't begin until September 1. Nor should such an official say anything only two days after the papers have run screamer headlines, true or untrue, on a player revolt...
...preferred over a conference table becauses they accommodate large classes. But the practice of moulding educational techniques to the capacity of available class rooms is hardly worthy of America's wealthiest University. Professors who find undergraduates incapable of benefitting from the conference method fail to understand that discussion cannot begin spontaneously after 45 minutes of one-way communication. Participation must be fostered, and it needs mechanical encouragement in room design...
...York University was not alone. A special curriculum committee set up by New York City's Board of Education had also been wondering about comic books, In its last report, the committee cautiously recommended that New York teachers begin to look into them as a possible "educational device for the slow learners...
...kind of simple and appealing people that Ignazio Silone (Bread and Wine, The Seed Beneath the Snow) writes about-all done in a clipped Hemingwayesque style. But just about midway, Novelist Vittorini goes off on a wild-swinging tear into symbolism which is part sentimentality, part hallucination. His characters begin to chant lugubrious dirges about the "world's outrages" that sound as if they had been written by William Saroyan with an ice pack on his head...