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Williams, like his former pupil, Martin Luther King, espouses a basic integrationist philosophy. "The Judaeo-Christian teaching," he says flatly, "is simple on the unity of mankind. Those in the black movement who are moving toward separation are wrong. We have been criticizing the white Protestants for separatism. If they were wrong, I don't see how the black militants can be right. What sense does it make in the last quarter of the 20th century for a person to get in a corner all by himself...
...fight for their own interests. "The only place you really have consensus is where you have totalitarianism," he says, as he organizes conflict as the only route to true progress. Like Machiavelli, whom he has studied and admires, Alinsky teaches how power may be used. Unlike Machiavelli, his pupil is not the prince but the people...
...Though it has not been formally adopted by any school system, "Man: A Course of Study" is now being taught in 1,000 public-and private-school classrooms throughout the U.S. Wholesale acceptance seems remote: the course materials are expensive (roughly $4 per pupil v. $1 for an ordinary course), and schools must agree to submit teachers to a 20-session workshop on how to present the materials. Even so, the initial results are so good that Education Development Center is planning a second behavior course for children, to be called "Exploring Human Nature...
...ALFRED E. SMITH by Richard O'Connor. 318 pages. Putnam. $6.95. In nostalgic political memory, Alfred Emanuel Smith appears as a jaunty, cigar-chomping, roughhewn Irishman in a brown derby, the first serious Roman Catholic candidate for President, and the man who later turned on his aptest pupil, Franklin Roosevelt, to become a noisy opponent of the New Deal. All that is true as far as it goes-except that Smith was no more than half Irish. But the myth does little justice to the gifted, compulsive, frequently tormented man who created it in the first place. More important...