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...progressive" educator, for example, is a very bad man who is variously charged with being anti-intellectual, anti-social, and feeble minded. These progressives are termed "educationists," to distinguish them from more academic "educators." According to their critics, these "life-adjusters" are engaged in a conspiracy to exalt adolescent mediocrity, a subversive effort to remove all difficult and challenging courses from the curriculum...
...successful mood play. With a much less helpful production, Square Root is all clash of moods. Though plainly the object is to deplore complicated neurotic love, the wrecked marriage is treated too realistically for a play with so special an angle of vision. Again, though the object is to exalt simple feeling, the love story is so romantically colorless as to leave no angle of vision at all. What generally emerges is a square root in a round hole...
...real virtuosity and superb support, had disproved the footlight adage that actors can be no better than their material. But Playwright Osborne was not disparaged too severely. Of all theatrical talents, perhaps the uncanniest is an ability to write the sort of humdrum drama that great actors can instinctively exalt. On this bittersweet basis, John Osborne got his share of the applause. But the tears, including those of Actor Olivier's wife Vivien Leigh, were strictly accorded to Sir Laurence...
...time has come to advance NATO from its initial phase into the totality of its meaning," said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. "Let us exalt freedom by showing better what freedom can do." Thus, a scant six weeks ago, the U.S. signaled a major new direction in foreign policy. By last week the State Department had set up a six-man staff that was hard at work translating Dulles' challenging words into some specific proposals. The U.S. aim is to gather the 15 NATO nations into a new regional association under the U.N. Charter, roughly similar...
...conservative mind. Others have set to work redefining liberalism. Critic Lionel Trilling attacked the liberal idea that the only true reality is "material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant." It was this idea that kept so many liberals at perpetual war with respectable society, that led them to exalt Theodore Dreiser for his apparent social conscience and to forgive that conscience when he joined the Communist Party. "This is the liberal criticism," said Trilling, "which establishes the social responsibility of the writer and then goes on to say that, apart from his duty of resembling reality as much...