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Moorehead leaves the contemporary reader aghast at the obtuseness of the British, who followed Cook's discovery with the decision to make a penal settlement of New Holland. Reason has its crimes: since the American dumping ground for Puritan and Catholic dissidents had been lost by the Revolution, it was quite sensible in London to decide that the new continent should be used for a gaol. In 1788, the year of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, civilization in the form of white slavery arrived at Cook's Botany Bay. So came about a bush Belsen, with...
...result is a swampy omnium gatherum of a book, a disjointed, inchoate and intriguing recital for the negotiation of which the reader desperately needs a map. A map is not supplied. Carson simply fires his tidbits of intelligence helter-skelter, letting them fall where they may, and making no pretense whatever of stitching paragraphs or even sentences together so that they scan...
Moved by Communism Today: A Refresher Course (Aug. 6), a reader suggested that Essay "should be required reading in every high school classroom." As a result, our Education Department sent reprints to social-studies department chairmen in 18,400 public high schools. Some 800 college radio stations and campus editors have signed up to receive copies of Essays that have particular pertinence for the undergraduate. Another large area of interest is the world of business. An anthology* of 20 Essays that ran before Jan. 1 drew appreciative response from the business executives to whom it was sent. Characteristic...
Connolly's list will seem perverse and highbrow to many. To a U.S. reader, some exclusions will appear capricious. Huckleberry Finn is omitted because of its "sentimentality," and The Education of Henry Adams is out "because Adams did not write well enough." Nevertheless, the list is an achievement in taste and learning, and it is certain to provoke the unintimidated reader to compile...
...would have been possible to direct the contributions toward a more limited topic. Perhaps the magazine could have concentrated on a discussion of Rhodesia and South Africa, the plans and prospects for African unity, or the pattern of military coups revealed recently in Nigeria and Ghana. Instead the reader is confronted with all of these problems, plus an attempt to describe a comprehensive United States policy toward the entire African continent...