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...phrase in all this Flesch-pother is his statement: "... teaching of reading never was a problem anywhere in the world until the United States switched to the present method around 1925." Surely learning to read has always been a problem. I was taught with the aid of a famous English primer called Reading Without Tears, which was first published in England in 1857, and used by at least three generations of English children. But that it did not live up to its title is confirmed by Winston Churchill, who refers feelingly in his memoirs [A Roving Commission] to his early...
...still rank heresy to suggest that a great deal of the pother and nuisance caused by congressional investigations can be traced to one fundamental weakness of the U.S. Constitution of today, namely, its obsolescence ? When, in every other phase of American activity, there is continual renovation and change, it seems a pity that the people of the U.S. should be quite content with a rigid and antique political procedure...
...letter-writers had quoted practically the whole Bible, a damnable thing happened to perdition-preaching Theologian Hallesby: he was convicted of tax fraud over a period of at least ten years. He resigned his presidency of the Lutheran Inner Mission Society, stopped preaching, canceled a lecture tour. But the pother he had started went on. Should Hell be preached as part of the Gospel, or shouldn...
Despite all the current pother about the mechanics of painting, there are actually so few ways of putting color on canvas that abstractionists get grey trying to think up new tricks. Last week artists and camp followers were flocking into a Manhattan gallery to pay homage to a stranger who had succeeded, a husky Parisian named Nicolas de Staël.* Artist de Staël quickly explained that he is not so much concerned with abstraction for its own sake as with the expression of moods aroused in him by nature. Said he: "I am trying to say what...
...Phillips would suggest that Shakespeare should be 'translated' for the poor moderns who cannot possibly understand his archaic English." Said another: "Our translations of the Bible and our Prayer Book are written in our own language at its best period. What is all the pother about...