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...mills and finance. Despite some skepticism that Latin men would never be seen pushing a grocery cart, their first supermarket in Havana was an immediate success, and soon the brothers Brandon owned a chain of 14 stores in Cuba. When Castro nationalized their stores in 1960, the Brandons started anew in Mexico, where they now own four stores and operate twelve others...
This account may have painted a grim picture for Harvard students: the long hours, the hard work, and the strait-laced morals. What is missing is the exuberance of a whole society making itself anew, the almost frantic enthusiasm with which the Chinese go about their tasks. This must be lived to be appreciated; to my fellow students in Peking the hardships were the joys of creation
Moscow was almost surely strengthening its commitment to Hanoi and challenging the Chinese anew. That would make even more difficult any U.S. decision about policy in Viet...
...intricately contrived that the film is half over before an audience realizes that the characters tangled up in it are a fairly standard crew. Unfortunately, once the puzzle has fallen into place, the movie goes to pieces. Hero Garner and Collaborator Saint plow doggedly through the rubble to discover anew that there is nothing like a tight squeeze for bringing people together, while Rod Taylor, as a Nazi medico imbued with Yankee sportsmanship, reveals that he became a menace only to serve mankind. In the frayed formula ending, Writer Seaton has sabotaged his outlandish melodrama, like a man who strides...
...humanities and the social sciences, with students increasingly asked to solve problems, not memorize answers. A "Power Reading" program in 23 Los Angeles high schools, for example, teaches students to define the author's purpose, analyze the logic, and compare the work to original sources. Having learned anew that writing equals thinking, schools are requiring more composition-and in the process they are finding that a widespread and sensible rebound from distorted permissiveness has permitted the rise of a generation of teen-agers who can spell. And the best of John Dewey's liberating progressive education, with...