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...only surface disabilities. Absorbed in the agony of infant minds expanding under pressure, she is less interested in taming her Maoris than in finding the key to these hearts as virgin as her body. She becomes convinced that the words the youngsters respond to are not those in the pap-filled children's books but the ones drawn from fear and sex-from the vital reservoirs of life. Kiss, ghost, butcher, police, fight, jail-shown such words, the most stubborn of the nonlearners read and write...
When the envoys accredited to the Holy See were invited by diplomatic custom to present their credentials to the new Pope, Papée and Girdvainis received no invitations. Vatican Secretary of State Domenico Tardini explained that the omissions were made because the two diplomats represented "phantom" governments that are no longer recognized by other countries accredited to the Holy See. That statement itself was enough for old Vatican hands to sense a new atmosphere; under Pius XII, who made a point of keeping the Polish and Lithuanian envoys as anti-Communist symbols, there had not been any reference...
Three days later the Washington Post and Times Herald was quick to fire the customary salute: "It takes moral and political courage of a high order to talk in these blunt, realistic terms to people who have been nurtured on the pap of white supremacy." But matched against performance, LeRoy Collins' words were wearing thin. Unlike four other "Confederate" states, i.e., North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Arkansas, Florida still has no Negro children in white schools. Collins has proposed no plans to admit them, gradually or otherwise. And, under Collins-approved legislation, Florida schools can be closed down...
Either your so-called literary critic hasn't read the Overstreet books or is incapable of understanding them. The Overstreets' writings are based on sound findings in psychology and psychiatry. They aren't filled with quasi-religious pap...
...boldest and most widely read newspapers behind the Iron Curtain today are published in Poland, whose newsmen in recent months have refused to serve up the party-line pap that passes for reporting in every other Communist society. Instead, Warsaw's dailies and literary weeklies bitterly attacked Russia and Poland's Communist Party for the miseries of everyday existence in postwar Poland, thus played a leading part in bringing the Gomulka government to power. During the Hungarian uprisings, Nowa Kultura (New Culture), a literary weekly published by the Writers' Union, and the Communist youth organ, Po Prostu...