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Weinstein said he was not alarmed by the Newsweek cover story, "Why Johnny Can't Write," that caused such a furor in educational circles last winter. He disagreed with Newsweek's thesis that students' writing troubles are worse now than ever before, and pointed to a series of articles from previous eras to prove his point: a 1961 article in Look also titled "Why Johnny Can't Write," a report entitled "General Education for a Free Society," which in 1945 expressed precisely the same sentiments as the Newsweek story; and a 1912 issue of the English Journal which also described...
...with words like "equal access," "quality," and "standards." (Remember that George Orwell defined Newspeak as the introduction of new words and the simultaneous elimination of old ones, so as to make only the allowed thoughts thinkable.) Indeed, Harvard's tradition is so entirely based on discrimination that the present furor about the Currier House course makes one wonder where all the advocates of equality and justice have been all this time. Certainly they have not been crying with outrage at the daily indignities and discrimination that women, minorities and poor people encounter in this university, dominated by socially privileged white...
...clearcut. But the strike also continues to raise other important issues: the inadequacy of the National Labor Relations Board in protecting the right of workers to organize has been made all too apparent. The questionable deployment of a poorly disciplined Cambridge police detail at the plant has aroused a furor. And problems in labor organizing in the electronics industry as a whole have made the developments surrounding this strike particularly significant...
...Senator Edward Brooke, a black, demanded Butz's resignation. Jimmy Carter declared that Butz's crack was "disgraceful," and repeated his view that the man was not fit to sit in the Cabinet. Some White House insiders expected that Butz would resign as a result of the furor...
...furor that surrounded Carter's initial refusal to endorse the Humphrey-Hawkins bill was a classic case of the confusion of issues with programs designed to address them--a syndrome to which any "issues-oriented" campaign is susceptible. The problem begins with candidates' reduction of the issue-program relationship to the level of a simple "if...then..." statement: if you favor a reduction in unemployment, then you should support Humphrey-Hawkins. Under the rules of logic, a statement's contrapositive must also hold true, and if Jimmy Carter did not endorse Humphrey-Hawkins, then, so the argument runs, he must...