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...some agree that American schools have their faults, they point out that the test results do not necessarily indicate those failings. ETS research also suggests that, if anything, young Americans have been getting slightly brighter over the years. Then what could be causing the drop in scores? William H. Angoff, executive director of College Board programs at ETS, admits that no one can tell for sure. For one thing, because SATS are not compulsory (only about a third of high school seniors take them), the test group varies from year to year and is "a statistician's nightmare." However...
...BITTER SPRING (730 pp.)-Charles Angoff-Thomas Yoseloff...
Hell hath no fury like an ex-disciple. Novelist and Editor Charles Angoff was sole editorial assistant to H. L. Mencken from 1925 to 1933. In recent years Russian-born, Harvard-educated Angoff has emerged as Mencken's chief literary assassin. Having fanged his ex-idol non-fictionally in H. L. Mencken: A Portrait from Memory, Angoff releases some fictional venom in The Bitter Spring. Mencken is portrayed as a loud-mouthed vulgarian and an intellectual fraud with but a single saving grace, his love of music...
Listening with every pore open to the gibes and chaffer of the two sophisticates is a green, young editorial hand, David Polonsky (obviously Angoff), a breathless and bewildered Boswell already a trifle disillusioned in his Johnson. Polonsky's trouble seems to be that he has come to the American World seeking a 20th century messiah and found only a man with a man's common frailties. Nonetheless, Mencken, as the villainous Brandt, commandeers The Bitter Spring and breathes into it the only life it has. While much of Brandt's talk is unfit for print, it alone...
...Angoff favored the creation of "fact-finding" boards on the grounds that the public pressure aroused by the knowledge they make available helps to settle many labor conflicts...