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Died. Virgilia Peterson, 62, critic and author whose gentle book reviews and coolly poised performance as moderator of the TV panel The Author Meets the Critics belied the fierce passion in her autobiography, A Matter of Life and Death, a startlingly candid account of her hatreds and loves, notably 17 years with the second of her three husbands, Polish Prince Paul Sapieha; of a heart attack; in Sharon, Conn...
...supremacy of Soviet schools was no longer in doubt. The Russians don't think so. Last month the party's Central Committee and the Soviet Council of Ministers ordered a major curriculum revision to be ready by 1970. Explaining why, Pravda this month published an unusually candid article by Russian Education Minister Mikhail Prokofiev, who charged that the vast Soviet school system is not only seriously deficient in science and math teaching, but is mired in a rigid "bookism" that makes learning a bore and produces an alarming dropout rate...
...usual whispered argument, of course, is that to be candid about public policies that don't produce much progress is to give a weapon to the enemies of progress. This is an unworthy argument; there are never grounds for concealing truth about public matters. (As best the truth can ever be had.) But it is also an absurd argument. The American public supports a fantastic array of social services, and does so in ever larger amounts. The issue, then, is not whether, but which...
Hoffmann attributed Handlin's tabling motion to an "honest feeling that the Faculty would be split wide open." But, he continued "the resentment that [Tuesday's meeting] leaves behind is fan greater than if we had had a candid discussion...
...candid volume of confessions called Dialogues with Christ, recently j published in Paris, Lemercier tells of the I Cuernavaca experiment. A Belgian, I Lemercier went to Mexico in 1944, intending to found a monastery with two other men. Both his companions quit, disillusioned with monastic life; in 1949, one of them came back at the head of a gang of pistoleros to destroy the monastery-although neither Lemercier nor the few monks who had joined him there were harmed...