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...Please accept my heartiest congratulations for your Feb. 4 cover article concerning C. D. Howe, an outstanding Canadian. I hope that millions of Americans will read it, and by so doing help to dispel the amazing ignorance of Canada that is so prevalent in these United States . . . ELSPETH BEIER Ballston Lake...
...criticism was based on the idea that "U.M.T. is to be opposed because it is part of the present unfortunate emphasis on both sides of the Iron Curtain on force and the threat of force rather than upon efforts to reduce tension, to arrive at understanding, and to dispel the natural mutual fears...
There was a variety of good books by experts discussing their chosen fields. Harvard President James Conant's Science and Common Sense was a book that could dispel a lot of fuzziness if it got the reading it deserved. Andre Malraux's The Twilight of the Absolute was loaded with fresh, if intricate, thinking about art. C. W. Ceram's Gods, Graves & Scholars ranged readably over the history of archeology...
Overstuffed Iceland. Gallery confides that Iceland wasn't nearly so cold as everybody imagined, but at the time he had no inclination to dispel any illusions. Only the deepest snowdrifts were photographed. That softened the supply officers back in Washington, who, at the whisper of the word "Iceland," scrupulously filled requisitions for pianos, bowling alleys and overstuffed sofas...
...even if Yale alumni held exactly Buckley's views, they still would most likely balk at his formula for teaching these views. Buckley says "Truth will not of itself dispel error; therefore truth must be championed and promulgated on every level and at every opportunity." He proposes to do this by splitting education into teaching and research: Teaching teaches what is Right; research finds out what is Right. Teachers who teach Wrong get fired. Buckley does not want research fettered. It is only in the classroom that the teacher should be limited to teaching what Buckley and others think...