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Before World War II, Niebuhr seemed almost singlehandedly to goad idealistic Protestants into supporting the imminent war against Nazism; he founded the journal Christianity and Crisis to promote his views. Once that war ended, it was the growing power of the Soviet bloc that worried him. Communism was "cruel and fanatical," he wrote, because of its illusion that private property caused the sins of man and any means was justifiable to eradicate...
Seeking new ways to goad restless students, Hampshire is brimful of "relevant" interdisciplinary studies. One environmental course, for example, pulls together the geography of Mount Washington, the works of Thoreau, the migration of the Mormons, and computerized mathematical simulations of ecological systems. Hampshire has also been a pioneer in letting students work on their own for a month in midwinter. This year one girl simulated blindness for two weeks in a self-designed psychology experiment; Holly Lyman, daughter of Stanford University President Richard Lyman, taught herself to weave...
...Goad. Such diversity is now the most hopeful U.S. trend in the teaching of reading. Convinced that orthodox methods have misfired (more than one-third of public school pupils read below the minimum standard for their ages), reading teachers are also goaded by TV's remarkable series for preschoolers, Sesame Street, whose "graduates" now enter school knowing the alphabet and bored by many traditional reading exercises (TIME cover, Nov. 23). Twenty-five years ago, most schools used three "basal" reading programs of stories and workbooks; today there are 20, three introduced in the past year, each splintered into...
...smashing defeat ?I don't know where he can go from here." The whip's job may not cut all that keenly with many voters, especially those who have no high regard for the Senate. A few Senators even thought that the affront just might goad Kennedy into saying "to hell with them" and running away. Assuming that Kennedy, as he repeatedly proclaimed, had no intention of jumping into the 1972 race, the defeat was not a total gain for Nixon. Byrd may be more philosophically attuned to some Nixon programs, but he takes his partisan role seriously...
...gesturing frantically from the bench. At a breakfast meeting with some 15 newsmen last week, one important Nixon aide let it be known that as many as three Cabinet officers will soon be pulled out for good. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat who has served as a liberal goad to Nixon-notably on the welfare reform bill, one of the Administration's few major domestic proposals-will be dispatched to New York to replace Charles Yost as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations...