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...When uniformity comes we will have ceased to be free men. Those who would reduce us to a collection of parrots do not know the meaning of America. It is from our diversity that we sharpen our wits, gain in initiative and strength over regimented peoples. That is the whole distance between the spirit of America and the spirit of totalitarianism...
...principle . . . that you can't sharpen an ax on a velvet grindstone has given place to the view that if the pupils don't like it, they shouldn't be required to do it. ... The underlying assumption seems to be ... that students will write clearly and correctly by some sort of blessed intuition if only the teacher does not depress them with such inconvenient and unprofitable matters as spelling, paragraphing, punctuation, sentence structure, grammar and the choice and order of words...
...minutes Harlow ran his A team against the B team line and a Jayvee backfield in an effort to sharpen his offensive for the Quakers, and the Varsity ran wild in a flurry of touchdowns. In addition the Crimson squad got another look at the Penn plays and concentrated on pass defense and kickoffs...
...book is perhaps above all impressive as a demonstration that an almost moronic cheerfulness is not necessarily the foe of intelligence and sincerity, of which Sinclair has plenty. The '20s were a crazy, tragicomic incubator of a catastrophic future. Sinclair makes that, and the grim lines which sharpen their terrible convergence a few years later, perfectly clear. He also makes his whole 859-page canvas as shamelessly ingratiating as a barroom nude...
Author Streit is sanguine. He does not look too hard at the difficulties, suspicions, confusions, the interests that would be threatened, the prejudices that would be aroused: he wants democrats to be up & doing to solve these problems, to sharpen their wits, meet their obstacles, let their imaginations flower. Most powerful chapter in his book asserts that in recent history the U. S. has not played a heroic part. "Our policy has brought upon us the gravest economic, social, monetary, political and moral dangers Americans have ever faced...