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...same could be said for Arthur D. Hellman's piece on bomb shelters and Thomas J. Babe, Jr.'s critique of the Bender Report. Both articles contain much good research and many perceptive thoughts. But lapses in writing and organization are their undoing. Only the most dedicated reader will follow Mr. Hellman's string of quotations to the end. And those who are initially impressed (as I was) with many of Mr Babe's observations will be disappointed to see him overcome by inarticulateness when he tries to formulate conclusions from them...
Regardless of the word count of one company's basal reader, Johnny is exposed to an average of three to five of these readers, plus additional readers, plus library books-all in the first grade. The average total vocabulary of our six-year-olds is somewhere beyond 4,000 words...
...Reader Preston keep her wits about her. Chiropodist Dr. A. U. Johnson of Midland, Texas, has taken the tips off little toes of a couple of hundred people...
...Louis Pugsley, Reader Smith's teacher at the Garden Street Elementary School...
...were allowed to quote from the book's "obscene" passages, one could easily prove that such mechanical, brutally graphic scenes could never arouse anything except disgust in the average reader. That, most often, is the effect that Miller intends--disgust and hatred of the whole apparatus of modern civilization. This may make him silly--in the sense that Rousseau was silly--but not obscene...