Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kaleidoscope (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Charles Van Doren, in his first big chore since he reached his TV majority (over Twenty One), does the narration for a documentary on the American Indian...
...wealth and high birth, helped to get things going, Young reports, but they nearly ruined everything by insisting that equality of opportunity meant educating all children, bright and dull, in the same comprehensive schools (this, very roughly, is what the Labor Party currently proposes). Clearly, this plan was too American, writes Young: "Americans, far from prizing brainpower, despised it . . . In the continent of the common man, they established common schools which recognized no child superior to another." Another kind of education was necessary for Britain; "Englishmen of the solid centre never believed in equality. They assumed that some men were...
...have ever read." Although the Jesuit weekly America was sternly critical, Thomas Molnar cheered in the liberal Catholic weekly, Commonweal: "It has been said that this book has a high literary value; it has much more; a style, an individuality, a brilliance which may yet create a tradition in American letters." Said The New Yorker: "The special class of satire to which 'Lolita' belongs is small but select, and Mr. Nabokov has produced one of its finest examples...
...OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN, by Pierre Boulle (281 pp.; Vanguard; $3.50), is another one of those novels that try to prove that good and kind Americans are really dumb Americans. Ironic Frenchman Boulle (The Bridge over the River Kwai) is too blasé to join forces openly with embittered Briton Graham (The Quiet American) Greene, but he makes it plain in his book that there is no place for naive, warmhearted U.S. do-gooders in cold-war country. True to his Gallic instincts, he makes his American boob a woman. Patricia is the wife of a Frenchman who expertly...
Four Harvard professors will serve as consultants to evaluate American scholarship in the humanities, it was announced yesterday. Sponsored by Princeton University, the four-year project will be aided by a $335,000 grant from the Ford Foundation...