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...sketches of things Bouché likes to look at: old farmhouses, city streets and hallways, suburban backyards, antique wooden toys scattered on a table, shop fronts, roadside stands, and now & then a pretty girl. Quiet scenes lovingly painted in quiet colors, they utterly lack the shock value most moderns strive for. Instead of shocking, Bouché seduces...
...strive to erect a wall of security for the free world," he said. He recalled the courage of free men in another day-the French at Verdun in 1916, the Italians at Vittorio Veneto,* the British in 1940 "when they stood alone against Hitler." For Americans he recalled Valley Forge. "Indeed, if each of us now proves himself worthy of his countrymen fighting and dying in Korea, then success is sure . . . "Each of us must do his part. We cannot delay while we suspiciously scrutinize the sacrifices made by our neighbors, and through a weasling logic seek some...
Such a steamy geyser blew off last week when Mrs. Elizabeth E. Malament, a Brooklyn social-studies teacher, inveighed against a recent U.S. history exam set by the State Board of Regents. Wrote Mrs. Malament: "Does [the exam] measure the significant and enduring values that we strive to develop in our pupils? Will it help teachers by directing their emphasis into the most meaningful channels?" Mrs. Malament thought...
...Fradier concludes that "one would be very wrong" to suspect U.S. religion of hypocrisy. "Very sincerely, with a humility that is a little sanctimonious but authentic, its adepts strive for goodness and the life everlasting...
...strive that ever...