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Such adventures came but seldom. Bill was not the boy to notice that the apron strings of Pasadena propriety were holding him as fast as a straitjacket. All went well enough until Bill was in his teens, when suddenly he was overcome by an urge to experience danger. Soon he was making a good part of his spending money from boys who bet him he couldn't jump a 4½-ft. fence of iron spikes from a standing position, and every once in a while, "just for the hell of it," he would walk along the outer rail...
More Zombies. Since 1954 the university has been struggling inside a strange sort of straitjacket. In an effort to streamline the administration of various commonwealth agencies, the legislature placed them all-including the university-under the thumb of the Division of Personnel and Standardization. The division classifies jobs, sets salaries, abolishes or creates positions as it sees fit. It applies the same procedures to the university as it does to mental hospitals, prisons and road-building projects. The result is that Massachusetts cannot begin to compete with other campuses for top teachers. "What can I get?" asks President Mather. "Intellectual...
...from the fact that we are reading such a book at all . . . 'As long as such books are being published,' an American liberal once said to me, 'everything will be all right.' " Far from dignifying the humanity that lies more than skin-deep, these books straitjacket the Negro within his skin: "The failure of the protest novel lies in its rejection of life, the human being, the denial of his beauty, dread, power, in its insistence that it is his categorization alone which is real and which cannot be transcended...
After U.S. schools are released "from the straitjacket of their present grade structure," says Bestor, comprehensive, essay-type examinations should be restored as "the basic means of evaluating educational preparations and measuring educational achievement." Comprehensive testing, he says, is the answer to at least one big problem: how to give the best education to bright but needy pupils. It is an injustice to charge both the dull and the bright pupil the same college tuition, because one is potentially more valuable to society than the other. Bestor would bill everyone for full tuition, but reduce the bill on the basis...
...complaint was not only against the A.N.P.A. but against advertising practices in the U.S. newspaper-and magazine-publishing industry as carried on by their trade associations. Charged Hanson: "The result [if the case is successful&#], will place the entire business of . . . advertising in printed form in a straitjacket of judicial control, policed by . . . the Government...