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...CHILD CALLED NOAH byJOSHGREENFELD 191 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
BRENDAN GILL describes Porter's life and times in the introduction to George Kimball's anthology Cole (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston: more money than you'd care to think about). Gill gives us the old, familiar story: the debonair roue, writing At Long Last Love between swoons into unconsciousness while lying pinned under his horse with both legs broken, tiring the second half of his life in agony after the accident. The midwestern kid who made good; the character like Auntie Mame or his own Katie who came east and set the town on its ear, the country...
...movement for reform in America's schools has attracted increasing momentum through the 1960s, chiefly thanks to a number of writers like John Holt, Herbert Kohl, and George Dennison who have dramatized areas of inhumane and unthinking practice as well as various attempts at reform in the classroom. Now, "integrated day," "informal school," and "open classroom" have become as familiar as the jargon growing out of the work of John Dewey and the Progressive Movement. Unfortunately, the Progressives left behind little more in practice than jargon. Advocates of reform along the lines of informal schooling fear that without painstaking attention...
...self-defense, many woman physicians say that they offer patients qualities that men do not. Family Practitioner Constance Louise Holt of Washington, D.C., feels that "women understand the non-medical problems that bring patients to doctors' offices." Mary Allen Engle, chief of pediatric cardiology at New York Hospital, also points out that being a mother has helped her in treating children. Her specialty-caring for those with congenital heart disease-is a relatively new field that was begun by another woman doctor, Helen Taussig, who was Dr. Engle's mentor in the 1940s. Until then, says Dr. Engle...
...Gottesman, III. Biogenetics of race and class. In M. Deutsch. I. Katz, and A.R. Jensen (Eds.) Social Class, Race, and Psychological Development. New York: Holt, Rinchart, & Winston...