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Tolerance would urge that such productions are not intended to be read at all but to form an expensive, highly colored, temporary parquetry for the playroom floor. But suspicion suggests that the same kind of mind is at work here that tries to purge Huckleberry Finn from the schools, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Condemned Playground | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

Mao Tse-tung had already discreetly vanished from the public scene by stepping down as head of state-though retaining his all-powerful chairmanship of the Communist Party. This withdrawal by no means meant that Mao was accepting responsibility for the failure of the communes; it was merely the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Loss of Man | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

This newspaper display accurately reflected current internal political tension in Cuba. For while Fidel Castro proclaims himself a loyal disciple of Lenin, and dispatches 3,000 Cuban agricultural students to Soviet state farms rather than Chinese communes, Cuban anti-U.S. propaganda sounds more like Peking than Moscow, has never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: MOSCOW V. PEKING: Communist Rivalry Around the World | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

Such last week was the setting for Communism's most serious public rift since Tito's defection from Moscow. Instead of turgid rhetoric, there were revelations about Communism's recent past that rivaled the purge trials of the 1930's. Instead of parrotlike unity, there was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: One-Third of the Earth | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

Last summer, in a tea-party campaign that bored many of the town's complacent oldtimers, the four angry young men managed to get control of the Twin Lakes five-member school board. Pledged to purge the bloodless readers, to replace word recognition with phonetics, Dennis Beula, 33, an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Back to McGuffey | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

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