Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point out that the net result of a 530-page book by ten famed representatives of pompous and well-financed "progressive education" is just another case of "fuzziness in academic thought" requires either divine arrogance or childlike simplicity...
...years ago the U. S. had its first peek at the book in an abridged form which reduced the 781 original ranting pages to a more succinct 297. This version sold some 25,000 copies. Seriously impaired by condensation, however, was the original's most important feature-its faithful prophecy of Hitler's subsequent aggressive foreign policy...
...amazingly prophetic, frothy mouthed, full text of Mein Kampf has now become a historical curiosity as well as a psychopathic marvel, and last week, on the same day, two Manhattan publishing firms brought out the first unexpurgated U. S. translations of the Nazi Good Book. One firm (Reynal & Hitchcock) will presumably earn royalties for the Führer, the other (Stackpole), being printed in defiance of the Hitler copyright, will not. Excess profits from both will go to German refugee organizations...
...heard democracy discussed from every angle by 700-odd speakers at the annual convention of the American Association of School Administrators in Cleveland. All this oratory proved too much even for the superintendents. By week's end they had found something more amusing to talk about: a little book called The Saber-Tooth Curriculum-which, discovered on display in the exhibitors' hall, wowed the convention...
Another weakness of the book is the author's propensity to minimize or to ignore completely the possibility of friction arising in other European danger spots. Tunis comes in but for passing mention. General Franco is assumed to be already a pawn in the hands of Fascist dictators...