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Your admirable account of Walter Lippmann's life and spiritual difficulties (TIME, March 30) was most timely with all this pallid talk of liberalism going around. But didn't you overlook one of his most unique achievements? Didn't Lippmann discover John Maynard Keynes (Economic Consequences of Peace) for America? Wasn't it upon his advice that Harcourt, Brace & Co. published Keynes's book with a resultant sale far above anyone's expectations? And wasn't Mr. Keynes an intimate of Lytton Strachey? And wasn't that why Harcourt Brace got Strachey...
Personally, I think you overlook an item of news interest of first rate importance. Why not "take a chance"' and open up the subject in a big way (and incidentally make a host of friends...
...badger game" is so old a criminal trick that dictionaries describe it. A dishonest woman lures a lickerish man into her apartment. Suddenly appears the '"husband," who for cash will overlook his "wife's" indiscretion. Occasionally such blackmail is worked by low men upon rich women. Rarely have the victims sufficient hardihood to resist the imposition...
...Even if I were able to overlook these burdens, for monetary considerations are indeed secondary, I cannot overlook the discriminations and injustices which this legislation creates, together with its failure to meet the real need that exists today among our veterans in a fundamental and sound manner...
...speaking of cooperation between school and college I have not meant to overlook the more vital element of cooperation on the part of the student. The theory that a subject is good for a boy because it is hard and distasteful has long been discredited. The subjects which are difficult and abstract should indeed be taught in as interesting a manner as possible; and the boy whose inaptitude for them has been clearly demonstrated should not be forced to continue. But the modicum of truth remains that progress does not regularly take place along the line of least resistance. Unless...