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Verging on Hysteria. The essays' editors charge that the reformers fatally gear their standards to "the unlucky, the ungifted, the indolent or the otherwise lame." This shrill voice is echoed in every essay. Tory M.P. Angus Maud writes: "We must reject the chimera of equality and proclaim the ideal of quality." Novelist Kingsley Amis encapsulates mass education with the slogan, "more means worse," and blames student unrest at universities on the presence of the academically unfit. Psychologist Sir Cyril Burt offers statistics purporting to prove that skills in reading, spelling and arithmetic have dropped in the past 55 years...
...August 75. Surrounded by 600-odd party leaders at the Kuomintang's Tenth National Congress, Chiang himself sounded the keynote for "overall reform." The President, although as lean and ascetic as ever, must by now know that his dream of a return to the mainland is a hopeless chimera. Indeed, for the past two years the Generalissimo has told his people that the struggle against Mao's regime must be political rather than military. In such a contest he obviously needs a revitalized, rejuvenated party, one that not only presents an attractive image abroad but that can also...
...streamlined. There is now an average of 90 separate units of government for each urban area in the U.S. with more than 50,000 people; metropolitan Chicago has a paralyzing total of 1,113. Building codes and zoning regulations are confusing, often contradictory. Adequate housing is still a chimera for most urban low-income families (and increasingly so for the middle class as well...
...Chimera & Despair. That viewers find themselves curiously moved by his powerful geometry delights Smith. "My own personal feeling," he says, "is that all my sculpture is on the edge of dreams. They come close to the unconscious in spite of their geometry. On one level, my work has clarity. On another, it is chaotic and imagined." The Snake Is Out, for example, coils for 24 ft. along the ground in back of Lincoln Center, bulging in its black skin like some prehistoric reptile. It propels the viewer to circle it and savor its tetrahedrons and octahedrons swelling and flowing...
...United States is in Vietnam, talking about Hitler and Ho, Communism and Nazism, and apparently forgetting that governments that do not abuse and exploit their peoples are usually pretty resilient. Effective government in a pre-industrial society is really at issue in Vietnam, not the chimera of Hitler-like expansionism...