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...Spanish-speaking interpreter. But their approach was always the same: gain the confidence of the Indians by living with them and sharing their food (including such exotic dishes as monkey stew and roast tapir). Once a team had learned a language, it set about publishing a simple reading primer...
...signs distributed in the neighborhood were posted. But leaders of the sign project were undismayed, felt it was too early to assess the impact their idea. In the meantime, their experiment could stand by itself as a primer lesson in both democracy and economics...
Nineteen years ago, when the depression provided tempting arguments for high tariffs, a far-thinking administration initiated the Reciprocal Trade Agreements. In 1953, although world trade is more urgent than ever before, it appears that Congress may replace this vital primer to Western economy with the special interests' dream--the Simpson Act. The Act would hand presidential control of trade agreements to the conservative U.S. Tariff Commission, while providing higher barriers for lead, zinc, and fuel oil. Opposed by Dulles, Eisenhower, and most of the Democrats, the Simpson Act would be the precurser of a dangerous high-tariff program...
...spite of its Primer style, Professor Walsh's book is an ambitious and worthwhile effort. Like those who rail against "our godless campuses," Walsh recognizes a religious vacuum in most colleges. Putting the point differently, he declares that the campuses have in fact a plethora of gods, false gods with no effective challenge from the true, Christian Deity. With Christianity under the wing of a lame-duck Department of Religion, under no formal wing at all, or ludicrously capsuled in the binge of a "Religious Emphasis Week," the field is abandoned to haloed secular gods, like relativism, materialism, and "scientism...
Intelligently condensed and edited, Theology Digest should serve as a good primer for U.S. laymen (and as a refresher course for busy parish priests) in a field where a tradition of heavy-handed writing almost makes digests a happy necessity. It should also be a challenge to U.S. Catholics to start writing about theology more intelligently than they have been. Of the 22 authors whom the editors found worth quoting, only one is American, the rest are Europeans...