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...conviction of the University of Chicago's Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins that present-day man can find the cure for what ails him in the Great Books ("the minutes of the previous meeting"). Last week his theory drew a lively attack from one of education's new boy wonders, Harold A. Taylor,†† who at 33 is president of New York's progressive Sarah Lawrence College. President Taylor accused Hutchins (who at 48 is a kind of boy wonder emeritus) of living in the sterile past. Wrote Taylor in a column-long letter-to-the-editor...
Andreas G. Papendroon, instructor in Economics, agreed that "any relaxation of installment credit would enhance present-day inflationary forces." He belived, however, that should there be a recession around November 1--and he emphasized that he was not predicting--the lifting of credit curbs might have a stabilizing effect...
What do you find wrong with present-day writing-or good about it? Why aren't we getting more significant writing...
...MOONLIGHT (309 pp.)-Joyce Cary-Harper ($3). The Moonlight has the psychological suspense of a well-written thriller. But it is something more. It is the account of an English family trying to live by a Victorian code in the present-day world, told with personal aloofness from the tragic consequences that suggests the attitude of Thomas Hardy...
...TIME, June 16, there appears an article on Professor Richard T. Gore of the College of Wooster. . . . Professor Gore is of the opinion that much of the present-day church music is sacrilegious...