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...Sacred Laws. With such a definition; much of the trivia and confusion now rampant in the schools would be eliminated. Such skills as reading, for instance, are obviously indispensable in making wise decisions, but basket-weaving is something else again. "Social adjustment, in the sense of 'getting along with people,' or conformity, is not an educational aim. An education must include learning how to choose when it is best not to conform, and when one should differ." The fact, says Woodring, is that education must be primarily intellectual, for "all choice is intellectual...
...Send flowers!" is the curt advice. He sends a great florid basket full of yellow roses and thereupon becomes involved in a train of farcical events involving a Greek who follows a philosophical system called "Selectivist," "really an anti-system [containing the best points of] democratic, monarchic, ecclesiastic, Communist and fascist [societies]." Before the fun is over, the story introduces such British supporting players as a callow youth who wants to be "worldlywise like Mr. Somerset Maugham," bounding Newspaperman Wyvell Speen, and a goonlike consular official called Waldo Grimbley, who is delighted when Elaine Brent lands in jail, because...
...campus. Sample Boberisms: "If God were half as nice to us as we are to him, we'd be living in paradise," "Businessmen have as much competition as they cannot get rid of," "Once we went to market with money in pocket and came home with goods in basket; now we go to market with money in basket and come home with goods in pocket," "If every man carried his cross, mighty few women would walk." To his students he growled: "When you leave this room I want you to feel that you have learned something...
...term, is being talked about as a potential governor of Louisiana or U.S. Senator. His success demonstrates a political maxim that last-hurrahing wardheelers across the U.S. are rapidly learning: a hard-nosed, hard-pushed program of municipal reconstruction can do more than patronage, back-scratching or the food basket to put a modern-day mayor on the road to political success...
Curley's proudest boast is that he was always a friend of the poor. The Christmas basket, the $10 loan, the stay of eviction, the city job-all bought him votes, but also made his headquarters a "school, employment agency, court of domestic relations and poor man's 'psychiatric couch.'" He was the voice of the poor, too, railing down the years against the Brahmins of Back Bay, State Street and Harvard. Curley's long memory bears the imprint of the Yankee sign, "No Irish Need Apply," that was so frequent in his youth. Though...