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Nothing is wrong with segregating youth as a distinct stage of life, provided that the right purpose is served, namely to strengthen children for highly complex roles. On the whole, this is just what happens to the vast majority of American youngsters. Even so, the failure rate is big enough to ask why some of the most privileged children are so unready for adult life. One reason is the lack of self-shaping experience; part of the hippie syndrome is a quest for adventure and competence. They did not have the benefit of those cattle-boat jobs that might have...
...usually reserved for long-awaited novels. Here at last were intellectuals putting out a review of depth, personality and bite, one that would treat books and their ideas with the seriousness they deserve. To some extent, Review still does just that. But in the past year or so, a distinct change has come over the tabloid-sized bimonthly...
...approach do well on college entrance exams and have little difficulty in their college science courses-even though these rarely employ the discovery method. Such students, contends Dr. Keith Kelson, deputy associate director of the National Science Foundation, "no longer accept flat statements from professors-they have a distinct show-me-and-prove-it attitude...
Patriotism is just as important as ever. The problem is in defining it-and few definitions are so elusive. It consists of three distinct but interrelated emotions-love of country, pride in it, and desire to serve its best interests. The love is easily traced to man's natural affection for his particular home, language and customs. The word patriotism comes from pater, Greek for father, and means love for a fatherland. From the love flows pride: the firm belief that one's country is good and perhaps superior to all others-a pride not only...
...conservatism is very much a family affair. His father, William Frank Buckley Sr., who made millions in oil in Mexico and later in Venezuela, was understandably devoted to unfettered free enterprise. His mother, Aloise, was from a deep-rooted family of New Orleans, where she acquired a distinct distaste for importunate Yankees and their progressive ideas. The family conservatism was, if anything, strengthened when the elder Buckley was thrown out of Mexico as a "pernicious foreigner" in 1921 and his holdings expropriated. "It gave him," says his daughter Priscilla, "a lifelong distrust of revolutionary and socialist governments...