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...bright young age of 31, Jonathan Kozol has become the nation's latest instant expert on the problems of urban schools. A frequent guest on television talk shows, he has more speaking dates than his calendar can handle, and last month he was invited to Washington to testify before a Senate subcommittee. What has made Kozol something of a celebrity is the success of his Death at an Early Age (Houghton Mifflin), a polemic against the treatment of Negro pupils in Boston's ghetto schools. Since publication last month, it has sold a thousand copies...
...school systems. By overstating and underdocumenting his blustery crusade, Kozol is pushing Boston's regressive school officials into an even more defensive stance rather than inspiring them to correct much that is undeniably wrong. Indeed, School Superintendent William Ohrenberger dismisses the entire work as Kozol's "latest piece of fiction," refuses to take even the book's valid complaints seriously...
Brown's latest indiscretion sparked more outcries for his resignation, but he could at least take comfort in the fact that the Sunday Times was, more or less, stopping. Last Sunday it scarcely mentioned Philby, instead it published the memoirs of that uncontroversial and undeniably loyal Englishman, Sir Francis Chichester...
THEN, one night, we all got together at a friend's house. No strangers, that is, no potential informers. And the old spirit came back. For hours we told one another the latest anti-junta jokes. The Greeks have a biting sense of humor. When the coup came, the terrified people, totally unprepared for resistance, reacted with the only weapon it then had-ridicule...
...Have you heard the latest? They arrested a man who was accused of making up jokes. They brought him to Pattakos. -- Are you the man who started that joke about the old men sitting on the park bench? -- Yes, my general. -- Did you start the joke about the four meatballs, one of which was a microphone? -- Yes, my general. -- Did you tell the story about the dog who went to Italy so that he could bark freely? -- Yes, my general. -- And why did you do all that? Don't you know this government enjoys the support of 98 per cent...