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...between high sales and highbrows was wider than ever-a difference due, in large part, to the fact that the popular writers seemed to dramatize without thinking, and the unpopular writers to think without dramatizing. Nearest U.S. approach to a good combination of thought and drama was Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, a novel about the Huey Long regime. Among the best of the rest: Conrad Richter's The Fields, Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, Christina Stead's Letty Fox, Sholem Asch's East River, Jerome Weidman...
...Norwegian carpenter named Martin Lie, leaving his wife and a small son, went off to the fabulous world which Oslo still called new. Driven by the instincts common to migrants of all time in quest of adventure or security or freedom (or simply of wider skies and unfamiliar faces), he sailed toward the west. The hard but hospitable shores received him and he vanished, unknown and untraced, in the fertile chaos of a country's growth. No one ever knew whether he found what he sought. He didn't write home...
Forty-four years later, the carpenter's son Trygve came, with all possible public attention, to the same shores, driven by the old longing of an intolerably troubled civilization for security and wider skies. He too was an emigrant who had left his country for a new and larger allegiance. Trygve's destination was less substantial than the U.S. of 1902, but not necessarily less important or less noble...
Says Bullis: "Because of their wider knowledge of practical life problems, some of the boys with juvenile court records have made excellent contributions to discussions and for the first time have achieved classroom success...
...fashioned educators might argue that there are certain qualities in an educated man too elusive for an I.B.M. machine to measure, but the board insists that its present multiple-choice exams cover a much wider range of the student's preparation than the essay type ever did. Explains the board's new director, Harvardman Henry Chauncey: "We get a large number of candid-camera shots of the individual, 150 or more, instead of six or eight posed photos." The new exams are also quicker to take, quicker to mark (by I.B.M. machine)-and also eliminate the effect...