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Professor Demos also approves of courses about religion, but he replies that students are not merely taught about democracy. "Don't we teach democracy and science in the sense of indoctrination?" Certainly this is a valid point; American youth learn the democratic method through student government and the democratic hagiography in their history courses. Democracy, however, is an ideology almost universally approved in the United States, and its wide-spread acceptance leads many to over look the fact that education about democracy has been replaced by indoctrination in democracy...
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Contacted yesterday by telephone, Mrs. Bunting's first comment was "I know I've got a lot to learn about Radcliffe." She said that her first-hand experience of the College has been confined to a one-day visit...
...Nowadays, what with foundation grants, teaching jobs, formal contests and informal cocktail party juries, the business is a lot more complicated. In the A.C.A. (American Composers Alliance) Bulletin, Iowa-born Composer Lockrem Johnson (A Letter to Emily) offers a sardonic, modern-day guide to musical success. Excerpts: ¶ "Learn to balance teacups. Naturally, this applies only to the beginning stages of your career. By the time of your first major symphonic work you will graduate to balancing martini glasses. Meanwhile remember that more than one promising career has been nipped in the bud by a petit four injudiciously dropped...
...Could you estimate where you stood in your class from the top or the bottom?" Answer: "No, sir, I never checked on that." Fulbright, Rhodes scholar and onetime president of his alma mater, the University of Arkansas, was incredulous. Asked he: "You weren't interested in trying to learn?" (In fact, Yale does not rank its students...