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...showed himself every inch the novelist last night. For the British civil servant, scientist, and writer opened the first of his three Godkin lectures on "Science and Government" with what was almost a novelist's account of the intertwining careers of two English scientists in volved in a historic quarrel...
...course of distinguished careers, both men prepared themselves for the roles they were to play in their quarrel over radar. After their participation in Word War I each followed "a characteristic path" in slipping out of pure science and into politics, Snow said...
Johnson insists he has no quarrel with the "new critics" who assert that a literary work should require no knowledge to be understood outside of that presented in the book itself. He maintains, however, that a knowledge of the author's life can very often throw further illumination on his works. It would be a critical folly, he says, to throw this knowledge away...
Indians & Doorbells. Hansen has no quarrel with progressive education's contention that problem solving is more interesting than rote learning. But he thinks progressives underestimate the pride that children take in acquiring intellectual skills. Instead of directly teaching the skills necessary to solve problems, progressive schools resort to a kind of subliminal advertising. They start out with "units of experience" built around such hardy fascinators as "the Red Man." After interviewing an imported chief in full headdress, children write Indian themes-supposedly absorbing grammar and spelling along the trail...
...Andrews Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh. When a patient is operated on and found fatally ravaged by cancer, doctors are often inclined to assure with a him (and perhaps his wife as well) their that he fatherthat he will recover. In the case of non-Christians, Pastor Brooks has no quarrel with his benevolent deceit: "There is no merit in trying to force a Christian death on non-Christian life . . . But why must such a death be turned into needless defeat in the case of the faithful? When a devout man demands to know the truth s othat he can face...