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I was interested in your Feb. 4 report, "Ordeal in London" [a British test to screen children for higher education]. I think this points out very adequately the inadvisability and unfairness of competitive education for children. As pointed out, an educational system which forces children between ten and twelve years...
More Tax Money Too. The concept of the expanding U.S. economy was sound economic doctrine. But Harry Truman also used it for political advantage. By prophesying ever-higher national output, the President was also prophesying ever-higher federal revenues to balance the budget and pay for the Fair Deal'...
Peace in Our Time? Awareness of the Russian position brought words of optimism from President Harry Truman last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and Winston Churchill. Said Churchill in London: "There was a time in 1935 and 1936 when I used to hear . . . 'ancestral voices prophesying war!' But now...
After more than a century of intermittent haunting, the ghost of a gloomy British clergyman, Thomas Robert Malthus, was on the rampage last week. Cresting a wave of postwar pessimism, it flashed through the air on the radio, rode through the mails in magazines. Publishers opened their arms and presses...
At times, as in "Simon Prophesying Over the infant Christ," the composition seems artificial and the colors weak. The composition of all the works is contrived, but Blake usually uses his contemporary conventions to produce a heightened effect, and only seldom does he fail. Generally the movement flows upward and...