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...KENTUCKY U.S. SENATOR Cooper (D)* (winner) Brown (R) U.S. House (7): +2 Republicans...
...SUSAN COOPER...
...graduate of the London School of Economics now in the doctoral program at Harvard Business School, I deplore the absurdity of Susan Cooper's attack on American education [Oct. 14]. She might have better served the truth were she familiar with the curriculum of an English university: the textbooks I used at L.S.E. were nearly all American...
Notions of this sort were popular in Britain a decade ago. As to the present British view of America, Mrs. Cooper describes it as follows: "American scholarship is condemned as prolix, overearnest and trivial. The only genuine art form is jazz, produced by an oppressed minority. Most Americans are bores; nice people, quite often, but boring nonetheless. A first degree from an American university is worthless; an American Ph.D. degree in any nonscientific subject is laughable...
BEHIND THE GOLDEN CURTAIN, by Susan Cooper (244 pages; Scribner; $4.95), contends that American affluence and self-sufficiency have created a Golden Curtain that splits the West in half just as surely as the Iron Curtain divides it from the East. This, the author contends, permits Americans to go their merry, uncomprehending way while the rest of the world lives in ignorance of what the U.S. is really like. Americans, she says, suffer from an excess of earnestness, are deplorably fundamentalistic in religion, too insular, too prone to look for Reds under beds, and are basically anti-intellectual. Furthermore, Goldwaterism...