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People who say The Ugly American reads as if it had been "written in a hurry" usually don't know how right they are. Six days before a similar, completely factual version of the slashing attack on American diplomatic methods was to go to the publisher, co-authors William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick decided the book would be more successful as a novel. They burned every page of every copy, hired four dictating machines and four stenographers, and started from scratch. They made the publisher's deadline...
...Nation of Sheep, to be released this spring, "points out, without so stating" that the average American doesn't know enough to do anything. Lederer takes a few of the more prominent recent foreign issues, attempting to demonstrate that the public has received little true information, from either the government or the press. "I want to let the average guy know he's been...
...order to know anything, one must be absolutely sure of the point from which one is looking at it," Jerome Bruner, professor of Psychology, declared last night in a lecture sponsored by the Social Relations Society...
Defining structure as the model each of us builds of our knowledge, Bruner said, "We put together everything we know in the way that we think the world operates. Then we spin it just a little faster than the world goes and we can make predictions. The purpose of education is to teach a person the techniques of building and using these models...
...emphasize the issue of economy, Bruner used a statement of the noted physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, "All of modern physics has shown that to know anything, you must realize that you can't know everything." Bruner added that the amount of things we can handle at any one time is sharply limited...