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...which darts from the observation that "the American was always taking a short cut to freedom, a short cut to fortune, a short cut to learning, and a short cut to heaven," to the professorial whimsey of "He [the American] knew that through pleasures and palaces though he might roam, be it ever so humble there was no place like home...
...also to keep the fighting on the far side of the ocean, to help grab advance air bases, and to deliver the U.S.'s fighting strength when it was needed. For all these, the big carrier is still the Navy's most powerful basic weapon; it can roam anywhere, strike far and with surprise. The J.C.S. was willing to listen. In the new budget the Navy had taken the heaviest slash. After the public quarreling over the 6-36, the Chiefs were anxious to prove that the services could get along; Omar Bradley in particular profoundly regretted...
Courses are no longer rigidly restricted to subject: they can and do roam into many other fields. "Nowadays," says Assistant Superintendent Roy Hinderman, "history teachers teach spelling, biology teachers teach spelling, and spelling teachers teach spelling." But such matters as spelling, or math, or writing, are only the beginning. Taken alone, they are, insists Kenneth Oberholtzer, just "silo education, or storing up facts." Subjects must be related to each other and to life around them. What good is history, the educators ask, unless it is tied in with current events, or with what's going on in Denver...
Scott closed with the prayer of a Herero chief: "O Lord, help us who roam about . . . Give us back a dwelling place...
TIME'S founders conceived of an Art department which, while performing the function of criticism, would roam over the entire field of art journalism from old masters to contemporary painters. For like nearly every other aspect of each week's important happenings, the news of art is not always to be found in the big galleries, but frequently in alleys and side streets and back rooms like that of M. de Cardonne in Paris...