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...what the President said are even more disturbing than his specific hypocrisies. He assumed that the Cold War has brought about a crisis in relations between the government and the press, that this crisis is in large part the press's fault, and that the greatest service newspapers can reader in the national interest is to restrict voluntarily their coverage of the Cold War. If anything, the Cuban affair demonstrates that the "crisis" is exactly the reverse of what Kennedy imagines it to be. It is that the American public is not being given enough information, and that there...
...Unbeliever and Christians, excerpted from a statement made in 1948 at the Dominican monastery of Latour-Mauborg in Paris, the reader will find baldly stated one tenet of Camus' entire outlook, echoing again and again through his works: "Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children." One thinks again of The Plague, and of the priest Paneloux who learned that suffering demands resistance, and that tyranny, in whatever form, cannot be excused by either its transcendental value or its universality...
...style that one can come to the Jewess' cry--"Where now? Not home yet?... Not home yet? Where is my home?"--and not despair of its baldness. The final scene is, as Poirier notes, "brilliantly timed," a climax of power evoking a grand release of tension in the reader, reminding him of his inescapable wish to recapture the happiness of the past, "that joyous certainty, that sense of moving and being moved, of being one and indivisible with the great of the past, with all mankind...
...modern elementary school reader sloughs over the whole business of morality," Jules Henry, sociologist at the University of Washington, said yesterday. "If there is any moral message at all, children are likely to miss it unless the teacher points...
...Relax. Any good kindergarten teacher knows that her kids in fact yearn to read. But Johnny can't read at 4½ because "research shows" that "reading readiness" comes at 6½. Even when he gets the chance, it may not be worth it. The fatuous "basal reader" with its Oh-Oh-Sue-said trivia destroys all joy in words. Mayer calls this "the most serious single criticism that can be made of the schools...