Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Natives. The best piece in the book is the title essay, a slender recollection of an incident during Orwell's days as a British constable in Burma. Orwell had been called out to shoot a tame elephant gone rogue. He did not really want to shoot the beast, but behind him stood a crowd of Burmans ready to jeer if the white man faltered. Since "a sahib has got to act like a sahib," Orwell pumped his bullets in the animal's hide, reflecting "that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys...
...years the type of examinations has changed more than once. The first factual tests in narrow fields gave way to broad "comprehensives" filled with essay questions. Later, the board pioneered with "scholastic aptitude" tests. By World War II it begar, giving "achievement tests" in 10 different subjects. Of these, in addition o the scholastic aptitude test, most colleges require three. Instead of writing essays, the student must now answer short questions, designed to test his ability to think as well as remember. Unlike the older essays, they are questions no teacher can anticipate, and no student can ever cram...
Last week, Hong Kong's Communist-lining Ta Rung Pao published an essay under son Hu's signature. It reported that he had faithfully read Communist tracts, passed two "scrutiny" examinations. At first his filial loyalty had been outraged by Communist slurs-"To represent my father, whose knowledge is so wide, as a person who does not understand imperialism was rather an insult." But the "new learning" finally brought him round. Son Hu denounced his father as a "reactionary" who had paved "the road for capitalism-until he returns to the embrace of the people he will always...
...being harmless agrarian reformers -and liberals at home and abroad had rushed for the Red bandwagon. Last week the U.S. Communist Party monthly Political Affairs revealed what Mao himself really thought about liberals; from the July 7 Bombay (India) weekly Crossroads it reprinted an English translation of a little essay Mao had written for the Chinese party...
...DeLancey K. Jay Prize to John Morton Blum 4G for an essay entitled, "Tumulty and the Wilson...