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...Star-Times "frequently omits panels and columns which it considers offensive, but rarely does it omit a comic strip, because it breaks the continuity . . . and results in a deluge of protests, usually by telephone." (Last week the paper threw out two panels of a series called Cuties because they were too leggy.) It was not much of an answer. The same sort of excuse could be made by every mass medium the Star-Times had indicted. But at least the Star-Times had cocked a snook at the problem-and then run like hell...
...panacea. Like most other courses, they depend largely on who is teaching them, and many are hampered by their size and by the almost complete impossibility of contact with the lecturer. The selection of representative subject matter must still be largely arbitrary, and in the humanities any selection must omit important works. Even in the Natural Sciences, which are probably most suited to teaching the basic method and techniques of the field, the students have criticized many elements, including the pace of the courses, slow because of the assumption from the beginning, that students know nothing about the field...
Once, asked to omit stories exploiting the grief of bereaved families, the Mirror declined in terms that capsuled the Bartholomew credo: "Are editors to be asked to say that this or that is not nice news? ... A news editor with that type of mind would be like a general with a conscientious objection to killing. . . . The London press is already too niminy piminy." When other British national papers were niminy piminy about the story of Edward VIII and Wallis Warfield Simpson, the Mirror broke...
...motor innervation," i.e., they are quick on the draw. With this advantage, Dr. von Hentig thinks, it is no wonder that they rose to prominence in the shooting business. "The frontier was an all-male society," the report adds, with a hint of regret. "It was therefore easy to omit the issue of the red-haired woman...
...should know those fascinating historical myths and legends that have become a part of American folklore. . . . Some of these myths stimulate affection for our country, or an appreciation of its leaders or institutions. Unfortunately, there has been a growing tendency for the history textbook and the history teacher to omit . . . legends in the classroom...