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...parents, most of them professional people and graduates of the best colleges in the country, Melody Workshop in Berkeley, Calif, seemed an ideal nursery school. It was run by imaginative Lila Joralemon, 35, who considers bright preschoolers capable of more than mindless play. Using music-a sure fascinator for children aged 3½ to 5-she taught the alphabet, French, good manners and good music itself. But last week Mrs. Joralemon, daughter of a Los Angeles school superintendent who for years fought against excessive permissiveness in education, was losing the same battle. To state welfare officials, her Melody Workshop...
Some of these men (like Chester Bowles and John Kenneth Galbraith) helped to draft the Democratic platform, and occasionally the eloquence of their unhappiness gives the lie to the visions of mindless utopia cast by the rest of it. "We have drifted into a national mood that accepts payola and quiz scandals, tax evasion and false expense accounts. . . exploitation of sadistic violence as public entertainment," they tell us. The presence of these words in the platform implies that President Eisenhower's administration has been responsible for all these, just as Frank Church suggested in his keynote address that the Republicans...
...yellow Sunday in the last days of a good spring, while . . . pale threads, drawn out from dark hidden places, began to be wound inexorably together . . . until there had been wrought, out of such tenuous white and fleeting things, a taut tripwire for the souls of men, destined, before its mindless work was done, to bring many tall sure riders down to earth, and below.'' Burdened with such prose, the skeleton of a good shoot-em-up also comes rattling to earth-and below...
...Ikeda, 61, who was one of the very few to support Kishi to the end. A Liberal Democratic spokesman said, "Kishi has become a scapegoat. He has taken on his own shoulders the hate against conservatives, the hate against America, the hate against everything." Then with cheerful and almost mindless optimism, he added: "When Kishi leaves, our party will have a new leader, and with that a lot of the hate will go away...
...tired of play; they are eager and ready to begin serious work." They have been exposed to travel, nursery schools and working mothers. They visit the public library and fly in airplanes. They dial the telephone, operate hi-fi sets and read words on TV. Yet teachers persist in mindless "fun"-and leave the kids sucking their thumbs...