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...reality, which means that the slums will be replaced by industry. But if the fact that something was done looks hopeful, the stumbling, hesitant, often ludicrous incompetence with which the program has been carried out should also serve as a warning to those who see Urban Renewal as a panacea. Inexperience, administrative red tape, and sheer incompetence almost killed this project and the problems will redouble if a really substantial is initiated...
...heart of the measure is the so-called soil bank, through which the government would pay farmers for taking land out of production and putting it into soil-building grasses or leaving it fallow. On paper, this seems like the panacea Benson has so urgently sought during the past three years. Like most panaceas, however, its chances of working are slim...
...experts, there is no single way to teach reading, nor is there one panacea for the national reading problem. Nor is there much doubt that many Americans will go right on complaining just as they were in 1845, when the Boston Grammar School Committee sadly reported that "a large proportion of the scholars in our first classes, boys and girls of 14 and 15 years of age, when called on to write simple sentences . . . cannot write, without such errors in grammar, in spelling, and in punctuation, as we should blush to see in a letter from a son or daughter...
...happy warriors but a good housekeeper; the welfare state needs to be run, not won. Successful British politics today consists in capturing the middle, and Hugh Gaitskell, more than any other Labor leader, is fitted for that appeal (see box). He has little interest in the panacea of nationalization long urged by Bevan. For him Socialism is a matter of fair shares and equal opportunity. And as much as any Laborite, Gaitskell shares Winston Churchill's conviction that the safety of the free world depends on the firm friendship of the U.S. and Britain...
Norman Mailer '43 decided in his first two books that man could find little happiness in the world, and in his third novel, The Deer Park, he has tried to find a way for man to improve this unhappy situation His panacea is simple--sex. To Mailer, sex is the only force which can make living worthwhile, and The Deer Park explores its effect on a very selective group of characters...