Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wilder than anything ever dreamed of by U.S. life adjusters. While progressive educators in the U.S. talked of learning by doing, the Communist line became virtually learning by anarchy. Says Hechinger: "Schools were run by student-elected committees. Even elementary school pupils had a voice equal to their teachers. Book learning was discredited. Communist youth leaders not only spied on the teachers but could countermand their orders and free pupils from classroom work. Examinations were labeled the marks of bourgeois reaction. Homework was prohibited...
...rich man's hair. But then the rich man takes mother and son to his country estate, and for a while they are both very happy. Apu plays in the fields and studies to be a priest like his father-a matter that involves more folklore than book learning. Yet one day Apu comes home with a faraway look in his eyes. "Mother," he announces, "I want to go to school...
None of them has anything in particular against old Francisco Guarner. The book skillfully makes it plain that the crime is planned only because of a variety of character flaws that each youngster more or less recognizes in himself. They are not even on the level with one another. When they play poker to see who will do the actual shooting, the cards are stacked by drunken Eduardo and tough-talking little Luis so that David, the kindest and weakest of the bunch, has to do the dirty work. The deed-getaway car and all-is planned coldly by Agustin...
...book was censored in Spain, and in some ways Author Goytisolo's hot-blooded young assassins are unmistakably Spanish. But there are gangs like the one he describes in just about every large city in the world. The Young Assassins has the virtue of sympathetically describing youth's restlessness in a static society. Its weakness is its failure to dramatize psychological motives, which its author is precocious enough to sense but not mature enough to understand...
...FELLOW DEVILS, by L. P. Hartley (413 pp.; British Book Centre; $3.95), introduces wealthy, prim and Protestant Margaret Pennefather, who hesitates when glamorous Colum Maclnnes proposes marriage. Not only is he a Roman Catholic but his origins are vague; though he has gone to an approved public school, Nick Burden and other classmates think him rather a bounder. Worse, Colum is a film star who looks like Marlon Brando and plays gangsters and crooks...