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...loneliness. More childhood memoirs than one would wish end with rhetorical queries to the Infinite. The collection's showpiece is a long fable called Snowman, Snowman. It concerns a snowman who thinks long, long thoughts while slowly melting in the front yard of a middle-class New Zealand family. These scraps suggest not a dark night of the soul but a sun-filled afternoon, with curtains blowing drowsily at the window, a stack of clean paper on the desk, a typewriter at hand, and nothing...
...China is also wooing its yellow and brown brothers in the Asian Communist parties, with considerable success in Japan, Ceylon and, of all places, New Zealand. North Viet Nam's wispy leader, Ho Chi Minh, is ambiguous about his loyalties, but must reflect that Red China is next door while Russia is far away. Indonesia's Red chief, D. N. Aidit, walks a zigzag line, and Burma, typically, has two Communist factions-one for Mao, one for Khrushchev...
...Force of Energy. New Zealand's brown Maori children, descendants of proud warriors and seafarers, live by the rules of "take, break, fight and be first," writes Teacher Ashton-Warner...
Since all this parallels the problems of teaching U.S. slum children, the book's solution may be applicable far beyond the backlands of New Zealand. The author argues for what she calls "organic teaching"-a way to spur nonlearners to read and write by bringing their inner feelings into the tasks...
...dropped from tenth to eleventh place in the roster of nations as measured by baby care. In 1950, the U.S. was in sixth place. Heading the roll now are The Netherlands and Sweden, tied with 153 deaths per 10,000 births. Next come Norway, Finland, Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. It was Ireland that nudged the U.S. out of the top ten last year, by moving up from 13th place. To some slight extent, the U.S. infant-death rate reflects modern medicine's ability to maintain pregnancies and deliver babies in cases that, years...