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...poetical criterion which has directed Berenson's personal vision; all the more unique for an "expert," (the quotation marks are his own), to say of his ideal, "IT is incapable of analysis, requires no explanations and no apology, is self-evident and right. ... One may sing about it but not discuss it. IT is the most immediate and mystical...
...Negroes were turned down because their academic achievement was inadequate-whereupon the N.A.A.C.P.'s lawyers pointed out that one rejected Negro had an IQ of 126-137, another of 112, that 13 out of the original 30 had IQs of 100-plus. The school board's fourth criterion was "psychological problems," and eight Negroes were turned down after their records had been checked by the Director of Psychological Research at the Virginia Department of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals. Sample psychological finding...
That left five Negroes to go, and these, said the school board, failed to meet the last criterion-"adaptability to new situations." Straightfaced, Arlington School Board Superintendent Ray E. Reid testified that the five Negroes sure had "outstanding qualities" to get through the first four criteria, but that was just why they ought not to be admitted to white schools. Reid's reasoning: in white schools these young Negro leaders "would get feelings of inferiority" and would not be such good leaders. At last, under questioning, Reid admitted that the five criteria had not been applied to Arlington...
...foreign aid has come a long way from the postwar days when the simple criterion was to reward friends and to deny foes. The money doled from the U.S. till last week, to an odd set of customers, still had the same general purpose as the weapon once known to Europeans as "the cavalry of St. George."* But on both sides of the cold war, foreign aid was now devoted to far more complex purposes...
SAIL Ho! (288 pp.)-Sir James Bisset, written in collaboration with P. R. Stephensen-Criterion...