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...nations performed better than others. But one clue seems to be that students who showed greater interest performed better. U.S. students indicated a more negative attitude toward math than most others: the Japanese were the most positive. "Americans," contends M.I.T.'s curriculum reformer, Dr. Jerrold Zacharias, "have matho-phobia." They are "scared to death" of math, he says, because most teachers are afraid of it themselves and fail "to make it exciting...
...Indeed, Max Millikan, the sage director of M.I.T.'s International Center, frowned on the surge of CIA-phobia. "The number of my friends around here who have swallowed this 'invisible government' line is disturbing," he said. "They think there is an entirely separate foreign policy being concocted by people in dark corners. When they say that this kind of work is immoral, what they're saying is that it's immoral to have anything to do with telling the President what the world is really like...
...greater influence on the Party than the Communists have on them. "We wouldn't dream of asking the Communists to leave SDS," he continued, "because we feel it is important for our membership to come in contact with Communists and learn that they aren't devils." The neurotic American phobia of Communism must be overcome, he continued. It is equally important, he said, that our membership learn to formulate their own ideology, distinct from the Communist ideology...
Grand Finale. No other Western leader feels he has more of a right to discuss that disposition than De Gaulle. Moreover, no other Western leader is currently in a position to do so. Britain's Harold Wilson, with his Atlantic orientation and his Common Market phobia, is hardly eligible. West Germany's Ludwig Erhard has been forced into a defensive corner by Social Democratic Leader Willy Brandt's initiative on an exchange of speakers with East Germany; Italy and Spain, the Low Countries and Scandinavia are not contenders...
...Racial guilt phobia is the silliest concept since original sin. Southerners abuse Negroes because we all have to have someone to look down on, and for a redneck with no hound-dog, that ain't easy...