Word: holt
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...Glatzer, Rosenzweig has been well known in the U.S. for almost two decades. But not until this year, a full half-century after its original publication, has the entire text of The Star of Redemption been available in English. Now, in a courageous translation by William W. Hallo (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $10), U.S. readers will get a chance to sample the very core of Rosenzweig's complex philosophy of Judaism...
...Shadow of the Lynx, Holt...
...Shadow of the Lynx, Holt...
...ISRAELIS by Amos Elon. 359 pages. Holt, Rinehart and Winston...
Basically Herndon is in desperate agreement with John Holt, George Dennison, Jonathan Kozol, Edgar Friedenburg, Charles Silberman & Co. that U.S. schools are too foolishly over-administered to successfully nurture either reading and writing or the ability to cope humanely with the complex choices of modern life. But unlike most apocalyptic critics, Herndon sees no easy solution. He proceeds, moreover, by meandering parable rather than polemic, and uses a ruefully genial tone of voice that might have come from Mark Twain or Kurt Vonnegut. As a result, he is just about the only education reformer alive whose writing could...