Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waspish Philosopher Mortimer (Great Books) Adler took another buzzing stab at the "babysitting" aspects of U.S. education. Currently, said Adler in a speech before a secondary-school educators' meeting of the National Catholic Educational Association in San Francisco, the schools do not prepare pupils to go on learning in their leisure time. Adler's recommendation: do away with all vocational training in lower schools and give every student a liberal-arts education up through the bachelor's-degree level...
...Dryden, saw his verses and said: "Cousin Swift . . . nature has never formed you for a Pindaric poet." At 26 he entered holy orders "as [one joins] a regiment." He was tormented by pride and used this as an instrument to torment others. He wrote of himself: "Each line shall stab, shall blast, like daggers and like fire." Early, he knew himself. "My mind," he wrote, "was like a conjured spirit...
...STAB IN THE DARK, by Joe Rayfer (218 pp.; Morrow; $2.75), makes excessive wickedness seem just about as dull as excessive virtue. A group of down-at-heel U.S. artists wasting their time and money in Guadalajara manage to be both bored and boring as they dabble with drink, dope, adultery and murder. Best feature: the exotic setting of purple trees and pink adobe walls, as vividly colorful as a Mexican travel poster. But the characters are two-dimensional poster figures...
...grips with the vital issues of history. It won the Prix Goncourt, and Gide described it as "panting with an anguish almost unbearable." Cried François Mauriac: "Here is a youth who since adolescence has been moving against society, a dagger in his hand, and who to stab it has sought out its most vulnerable point, in Asia . . . But look! He has talent, more talent than any other youth...
...week's end the celibates were still unbowed, if a bit bloody. During the fast, an additional 35 had to be hospitalized for starvation. And Sentry Kim Chi Yo was in critical condition from stab wounds self-inflicted, in remorse at having let the married monks get the jump...