Word: authorizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, partially retired and 62, he was tolling again. His latest book, Crisis in Education (Whittlesey House; $3), rang the changes on U.S. culture as Bell has seen it in a lifetime of observation. Whether readers agree with all of it or not, the book is unmistakably what Author Bell intended: "a challenge to American complacency...
Unfortunately, says Author Bell, modern education, of which the Aldriches are typical products, is less a cure for modern immaturity than a cause of it. This, he asserts, is not the age of the Common Man, but "the Century of the uneducated Common Man, of the Common Man unskilled in the art of living. Untaught in the wisdom of the race, he is competent neither to rule nor to be ruled ... blatantly vulgar, ill-mannered, boorish . . ." Instead of educating the Common Man to take his newly acquired place of leadership, U.S. schools and colleges have slung him a "mess...
Gaiety, high spirits, even joy surge up in Author Churchill at the thought of the hour's magnificence and his place in it-to stand, supreme at last, in an hour of desperate hope, and to find his mood echoed in every city and hamlet of Britain. The prospect of Nazi invasion is inspiring, providing "the chance of striking a blow at the mighty enemy which would resound throughout the world...
Meanwhile, the novelist tells the stories of the Negroes whose lives are directly touched by this affair-the Rogers family, Ezekiel's secretary, Bessie Mathews, and her hard-working brother, Luther, who tends bar at a hotel in Citrus City and later goes to work in a shipyard. Author Moon writes of people like Luther with great warmth of insight and a fine ear for inflections of speech. On the other hand, there is something a little too Galahad-like about the radical Negro intellectual, Eric Gardner, whom President Rogers is finally called on to defend against Cal Thornton...
This year Professor Albion has taught the Maritime History of the United States. He is the author of many books, including "Forests and Sea Power," "The Rise of the New York Port," and "Sea Lanes in Wartime." He has been on the Princeton faculty since...