Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...note the faults found and the remedies offered, including your estimate of possibly "hundreds of billions of dollars." In no public utterance or published news item have I read one important ingredient: What are the responsibilities of the Negro community...
...jumped or was pushed from a window to his death in 1948. The Communists, who have worked ceaselessly to obliterate the democratic patriot's memory, had kept crowds away from the grave for years. While a girl student played a folk melody on a flute, a bearded youth read a eulogy that urged Czechoslovaks to remember Masaryk "in these crucial times, when we hope that men of his quality will lead our nation...
...that state aid to parochial schools violates the separation of church and state and undermines the public school system. Many Protestant church leaders have equally strong feelings about it. In Providence, R.I., this month, the Rev. C. Clifford Sargent, superintendent of the Methodist district, asked that a message be read from the district's pulpits urging defeat of the Rhode Island tuition grant bill. In Pennsylvania, state aid to parochial schools has been opposed by a number of religious groups, including the mostly Protestant state Council of Churches...
...John Barth'g The Sot-Weed Factor, which purports to relate the naked, ribald truth about Pocahontas and John Smith. Fiedler also singles out Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in which a white man and an Indian struggle against being lobotomized (read "castrated") by Big Nurse in a psycho ward. In these contemporary works the spirit of the Vanishing American returns, enabling the authors to debunk traditional notions of how the West was won. This debunking criticizes contemporary values, and that, suggests Fiedler, is also the aim of the hippie...
...This time he was allowed to leave Russia. But while he was on a lecture tour in England, his Russian citizenship was taken away. He became a Greek national, and now lives in West Germany. The Pleasure Factory is his best book to date. It shows that he has read his Chekhov and Turgenev with profit-and that neither greed nor the other passions they wrote about have been abolished in the new Russia...