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...vote went to Central Committee Secretary Jerzy Albrecht, a Stalinist. On these terms, Party Secretary Gomulka has a mandate to make a clean sweep of Stalin ism and Stalinists. They had battled him during the campaign with clandestine leaflets, smears, whispers, and every other trick in the agitator's manual. They had pictured a pygmy Gomulka beside a huge Cardinal Wyszynski. Now it was time for a reckoning. But instead of rushing to make the changes demanded by his enthusiastic supporters. Gomulka counseled caution. There was still danger of provoking the Russians. Radio Moscow warned Poland last week: "National Communism...
...Polish letter read as follows: "President of the Harvard University, Cambridge-Boston. Sir, I address to you with a pray: can you let send me a Manual of English and American Literature and Grammar and a Manual of English and American History? It's impossible here to get these books. Yours Faithfully, mgr. Michel Winogrodzki, schoolmaster, Silesia, Poland...
...these devices for converting the sacred written word into a means of communication instead of an artistic expression have received enthusiastic support from the insensitive exponents of mass culture, men who believe that the communication of ideas is more important than the manual arts. Of course I am not opposed to communicating ideas, and I think ideas are a good thing. But the idea that ideas can exist without a mastery of the Palmer method, without a well developed right hand, is one of the most insidious ever proposed...
...usually somewhat curled around the edges. This curling is also a universal characteristic of beards, as is dryness. The two exceptions to the latter statement are those who follow the Old Teutonic custom of staining the beard with bits of food, and those too youthful to have the necessary manual dexterity. King Richard III was an example of this fully-haired baby, but his birth is the exception...
Hawthorne to Sam Johnson. A typical fifth-grade reader text today "introduces the child to no famous writers whatsoever except as (in the manual for teachers) it suggests supplementary library books." Thus, the modern educationists are actually cheating their pupils. "What makes any child want to read is not only information or a banal story about familiar things and types, but his awakening, if it ever comes, to the . . . freshness and originality of thought and expression, commanded by great masters of prose and poetry...