Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Having just read the interesting Essay on sex education in the U.S. [June 9], I cannot suppress an ironical snigger at the spectacle of a highly rational society indulging in such magical thinking as to suppose that, having drawn a diagram of a tiger on the blackboard, the teacher may safely invite children to stroke the nice "pussycat" roaming in the jungle. Sex is probably the most powerful, and certainly the most mysterious, of the instincts, and cannot be tamed by a textbook...
...Mideast war. Rather than accept Israel's "sovereign right to existence," Eban said, the Arabs adopted a "doctrine of 'day-by-day military confrontation.' " Rather than working for peace, Russia "has for 14 years afflicted the Middle East with a headlong armaments race." Eban read off the deadly catalogue of Russian arms that had been delivered to the Arabs; he reminded Kosygin that five times Russia had used its veto to prevent the Security Council from condemning Arab aggression...
...Gaza City, when the municipal council convened for the first time since the shooting started, everyone was embarrassed when the mayor read aloud the minutes of the last meeting, at which an outlay of 5,000 Egyptian pounds had been approved for Ahmed Shukairy's Palestinian Liberation Army. The appropriation was quickly canceled...
...formidable and frequently forbidding scholarship of his books has not prevented them from being widely read, or at least talked about. From France, the interest in Lévi-Strauss and his "structuralism" has spread far afield. Cambridge now offers a course in his anthropological theory, a recognition seldom bestowed by any university until after the subject's death. The Germans have established a school called Strukturforschung (research of life structure), which adapts structural theory to the study of art. In the U.S., the amplifying academic debate commands the ear and the curiosity of non-academicians. Of his books...
...Strauss personally, the dialogue began 30 years ago in the South American bush. Born in Brussels to middle-class Jewish parents who did not accept their faith or any other, he grew up in France in a posture of skepticism toward traditionalist thought. At the Sorbonne he read for a philosophy degree-"not because I had any true vocation for it, but because I had sampled other branches of learning and detested them...