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Huckleberry Finn is not a Ku Klux Klan pamphlet. To drop this book from the textbook list is a shortsighted educational policy. Surely this acknowledged classic presents life in terms universal enough to out-weigh its incidental provincial slants. Let the latter be considered in historical terms and not taken as a contemporary affront...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huck Finn | 10/4/1957 | See Source »

...Newton. In Fresno, Calif., the Dried Fig Advisory Board ordered another 15,000 copies of its promotional pamphlet on learning that the public had snapped up the first 20,000 of The Love Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Citizens who want to get their teeth into solid facts on effects of water fluoridation had their answer last week in a 28-page pamphlet by a statistician who has at his fingertips more figures on health and disease, life and death, than any man living: Louis Israel Dublin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Figures & Fluorides | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

Catherine's Glynnese was often far less daundering than her normal English. Her description of William's reaction to the Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria is a case in point: "A pamphlet nearly written he has been boiling over at the horrors and at the conduct of the Government very proud that England's voice is speaking its great heart throbbing and in this pumped-out moment with no backing it speaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Last Man | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...John Raskolnikov Gilson, an eighth-grade schoolboy who wants to sleep with Miss McGeeney, his English teacher. In order to make his views known ("How sick I am of literary bitches. But they're the only kind that'll have me"), the boy has written a pamphlet that sounds very like West's own credo: "I always find it necessary to burlesque the mystery of feeling at its source; I must laugh at myself, and if the laugh is 'bitter,' I must laugh at the laugh. The ritual of feeling demands burlesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Despiser | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

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