Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this explanation fails to account for a great many things that we are all familiar with. If schools are merely dispensaries of knowledge, then why did our teachers put such an exaggerated emphasis on our getting to school exactly on time? Why was cheating on exams so fanatically discouraged even though a student writing an examination is no longer in a position to increase his store of knowledge on the subject at hand? Why was such a premium placed on competitiveness, and why were the most creative, most imaginative children always the most heavily penalized? As for the assertion that...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A LIFE STORY, by Carlos Baker. The long-awaited official biography offers the first complete and cohesive account of a gifted, troubled, flamboyant literary figure who has too often been recollected in fragmentary and indulgent memoirs...
...papers that does an much harm by its psychedelic raving as good by pointing up some little-known facts about the drug. Leary's other book, High Priest (World Publishing Co., 354 pp), its jacket sporting a photo of Leary looking like Alexander the Great, is a boring account of the master's trips. Has no information...
Varieties of Psychedelic Experience, by R. E. L. Masters and Jean Houston (Delta paperback by Dell, 326 pp.). This over-long account of experiments with LSD rests on the dubious premise that trips can be translated into verbal terms. The results are sometimes ludicrous. Does it help us to know that 88.01 per cent of subjects describe their experience as "religious...
...hidden chapters of his life. But Baker-a Princeton professor, the author of an earlier critical study of Hemingway's writing and sometime novelist himself-is the scholarly inheritor of Hemingway's papers. He has used the material to fashion the first solid, cohesive and convincingly authentic account of a lifetime most often presented in the past in fragments by partisan observers. The book's great additional merit is that it forces readers to take Hemingway whole. After Baker, Ernest the Good and Ernest the Bad will never again be quite so neatly, so conveniently...