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...least interesting of the fried post-mortems of 1952 is the reminder of an old and growing defect of the U.S. political system. Where party discipline is almost nonexistent, the leadership of the opposition cannot be institutionalized. Governor Stevenson, a man without an organized personal faction, shortly (Jan. 12) to be without office and without patronage, may exercise genuine leadership of his party by the sheer power of tongue and pen. But if he does, Stevenson will be the first American who ever managed...
...overwhelming defect about Snows is that it is based on a formation used in the original book to develop a character, yet disembowels character study by substituting pageantry for perception. It seem like a waste, somehow...
...easily. Sammy came to the U.S. when he was nine, and promptly defeated a platoon of Army officers in simultaneous play at West Point. Then, when he was eleven, someone discovered that the boy wonder had never attended school. Merchant Julius Rosenwald, a Patzer and philanthropist, soon remedied this defect. Six months of tutoring brought Reshevsky up to high-school level and he went on to graduate from the University of Chicago. Except for a flair for mathematics, he was just an average student...
Director Ben Andrews, a stutterer himself, offers no one treatment for all cases. For plain stuttering, some 20 types of treatment are used in the U.S., but none ever cures the defect entirely. Andrews' aim is limited: to remove the fear of stuttering, then reduce the amount...
...staff have their work cut out for them. They point out that even a normal person stumbles or hesitates in his speech at the rate of five to eight times a minute, that the worst thing a stutterer can do is to try to hide his defect. Stutterers are encouraged to read aloud, to exaggerate their stutter, joke about it. Each summer they are sent out to talk to at least 200 strangers. They keep notes on how those strangers react, and are amazed to find that only one in 100 would ever dream of ridiculing them. As their fear...