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...last named point of this program, McKay has good historical precedent. In the 19th century, Interior's General Land Office did a land-office business virtually giving away land-for railroads, land-grant colleges and, mostly, homesteading.* Lincoln, who made homesteading the law, believed in "settling of the wild lands into small parcels so that every poor man may have a home." The theory was that the people would work the land, build up the nation and make it great. In the 20th century came a new idea: the Federal Government should build up the nation and make...
London's impertinent music halls lampoon Joe McCarthy, Noel Coward or anybody else (except royalty) who crosses the news. But last week a songwriter got too saucy with Anthony Eden and ran afoul of the Lord Chamberlain, who has power to grant or refuse theatrical licenses without explanation. Three days before the opening of an obscure new revue called Light Fantastic, the Lord Chamberlain ordered the offending song lyrics dropped. The net result: London's tabloid Daily Mirror, which needs no by-your-leave from the Lord Chamberlain or anyone else, printed the ditty...
Poulenc: Nocturnes (Grant Johannesen, pianist; Concert Hall). Some sweet-sour (but mostly sweet) vaporizing by Cosmopolitan Composer Poulenc. Lightweight and pleasant, expertly played...
Even so, the beasts of the field (devotedly taken on film by Tom McHugh, James R. Simon. N. Paul Kenworthy Jr., Cleveland P. Grant and others) marvelously save the situation with their grace and large-eyed innocence, the way children often do when Daddy is being his worst...
...education with a Ph.D. in Greek, Dunkel has long been worried about the "enormous gap in communication" between the nation's high-school teachers and its college professors. ("Communication between the two groups is not only bad, it is practically nonexistent.") Last summer, with a $30,000 grant from the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education, Dunkel started some college-level courses for high-school pupils, invited a number of high-school teachers to sit in as observers. In this way, says he, "you not only get the two groups of teachers together to discuss...