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...every nine books published in the U.S. is a children's book. The bulk of this output does not occupy the classic realm of the imagination but a huge waste-of-time land. There are usually stories about neurasthenic little animals that want to secede from the animal kingdom. There are tales about plug-ugly ducklings (human) who can't seem to acquire a friend until the sentimental fadeout page. For pre-teentimers there are soap operettas about girls "who never quite know how to talk to boys." The boys are usually busy talking to a pet moose...
Furtado's troubled realm spreads over 680,000 sq. mi. of stony, eroded land alternately scourged by drought and swamped by flood. The rains are intermittent to the point where the Jaguaribe River, one of the region's most important, is known as the "world's longest dry river." Along the coast, the old landowning families employ sharecroppers to raise cane, corn and cotton on relatively productive land, keep their workers bound by insuring that they are forever in debt to the plantation store. In the dry inland area, more than half of the 26 million people...
There was, however, only slight change in the realm of College sports: for the past two years Yale had beaten Harvard 6-0 in the annual football classic at Soldiers Field. In 1907, however, Yale...
...later life she was also a great lip servant of liberty ("Liberty is the core of everything; without it there would be no life"). The French philosopher Diderot once shook her till her shoulders were black and blue to get her to apply a little enlightenment to her realm. With regal practicality she retorted: "Your medium is paper, and paper is always patient. I, Empress that I am, have to write on the sensitive skins of human beings." She did not add that she preferred to write with a knout...
Last week President Kennedy extended his characteristic pleas for self-discipline and sacrifice for the national interest into the realm of public opinion. One gathers that his desire for greater newspaper concern with national security was prompted by the press's treatment of the Cuban affair. If so (and the ambiguity of his remarks is in itself a bad omen), Kennedy's speech was a defensively hypocritical one. Worse, it was an indication that this Administration is slowly sealing itself off from its potential critics...