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And now Columbia Masterworks has released the entire six-lecture series as a set of 17 records. They do so "with special pride," according to a squib on the back of the box. Columbia's promotion of the lectures has played heavily on Harvard's prestige, and on the prestige...
As before (TIME, Sept. 30), the protests were led by ministers and parents who object to texts that include passages by authors from E.E. Cummings and Sigmund Freud to Dick Gregory and Eldridge Cleaver. Under particular attack are selections that appear to challenge a literal interpretation of the Bible or...
By far the most insightful, informative section of Love-Hate Relations is a section entitled "Ebb Tide in England," covering English poets and the war. Spender sees World War I as a major turning point in the shifting of "the immense advantage." Americans and English alike experienced a loss of...
The dispute has been simmering since April, when Alice Moore, a member of the Kanawha County school board, objected to many books chosen for the fall term by the teachers' Textbook Selection Committee. Then the Rev. Marvin Horan of the Leewood Freewill Baptist Church took up the crusade, and...
To quiet the opposition, the board removed the Cummings poem, the book by Freud and other particularly controversial texts. But, referring to a 1970 state regulation that requires all textbooks to reflect racial, religious and cultural pluralism, it kept the others.