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problem: how to raise scholastic stand ards without freezing profitable academic ferment in a rigid mold. One idea is a national advisory body for education. Columbia's Fischer, for example, proposes an organization like the American Red Cross, without federal funds or power, "to pass ammunition to local school boards," but not ''to lay down the law." Education Professor Paul R. Hanna of Stanford Uni versity advocates a national "commission for curriculum research and development" that would guide school boards but also shun fixed standards...
Poetry & Life. Lowell, Roethke, Bishop, Larkin, Kinsella-they are all good poets, but to say that they are the best of the postwar period is not to say much for a period characterized by a ferment without much effect, a prodigy promised but not performed. Among the couths, even the inconsequent are competent. "The level of technique in verse," says Poet Auden, "is probably higher today than ever before." But with all their skill, most contemporary poets seem to have little to say. To paraphrase Poet Jarrell: They are professional magicians who have nothing up their sleeves-not even their...
...discussion we have begun to perceive what the problems are in disarmament and arms control and have penetrated further into the difficulties. Some of the members of the academic community who were most interested are now closely associated with this administration. Quite a few came out of the ferment at Harvard. As an ex-professor I find agitation, discussion, and debate on campus very heartening...
...truism remains; the break must come from Moscow. And although many observers sense a ferment of liberalized thought within the Soviet Union itself, the U.S.S.R. is still a captive of its satellite system, which would almost certainly break up in the event of a substantive cold-war breakthrough anywhere on earth...
Cuba "Folk Dances." He wrote of a nation and an ideology in deep ferment, belying the Communist theory that enough agitprop and malice can stop man's thoughts and instincts and create a horde of obedient automatons. On the contrary, wrote Salisbury, a large section of Russia's youth is rebellious and alive with foreign ideas in the wake of the long years of Stalinist repression. Salisbury does not ignore the millions of sober Communist youngsters who study hard in their schools and universities, or work enthusiastically in factories. But more importantly, said Salisbury, there is rising...