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Getting Together. Over port and whisky at Paris' Hotel Matignon last week, the two Prime Ministers reminisced amiably about their World War II experiences in North Africa. When they got down to business, the British were pleased by De Gaulle's grasp of what they consider present-day realities. He seemed aware that France was not pulling its weight in NATO, but wanted to exact more say for France in Atlantic councils as his price for more cooperation. The British listened with what diplomats call sympathy (concealing their private misgivings) to De Gaulle's insistence that France...
...stood still 50 years ago. Even the best of them-Dmitry Shostakovich, Aram Khachaturian and the late Sergei Prokofiev-learned that lesson. In 1948, the Central Committee of the Communist Party accused them of representing "the formalist perversions and anti-democratic tendencies in music. The music savors of the present-day modernist bourgeois music of Europe and America, which reflects the decay of bourgeois culture." Last week the Central Committee took another look at the nation's three ranking modern composers and decided that none of them had really meant to be too modern, after...
...defective genes in the human stock by providing a type of medical care that permits those suffering from hereditary disease to live longer and to have children. This policy may constitute a step toward racial suicide, however noble it may appear in the light of our religious convictions and present-day ethics...
Hidden beneath the facade of Southern decadence lies the keynote of present-day secondary school education in the South: progress. Progress is the motto of the new South, and is now reflected in all aspects of Southern life. Everywhere the signs point upward...
...unfortunately. For the inadequacies of present-day education, where uninspired, underpaid teachers and administrators are willing to go along with any convenient, easy, well-tried program, demand that some sort of watchdog eye be placed on the schools, to insure that the best possible education can be achieved. Education in this part of the twentieth century has become an all-out community affair, with the isolationism of the academic school of the nineteenth century gone forever. The new--as one authors calls the "life-centered"--approach to education demands the interaction of the student with the community, effected through school...