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...stake is protecting these very constitutional freedoms, which are based on a society whose members are free to examine and criticize all institutions. These freedoms will survive only so long as we make it a stated policy of our educational system to stimulate the critical faculty, not suppress it because it sometimes may cause embarrassment...
While conceding Russia's megatonic output of scientists and engineers, U.S. educators are fond of a theory that Soviet schools suppress the humanities-subjects that supposedly thrive in U.S. schools. To "shatter that illusion" is a goal of English Professor Arther S. Trace Jr., member of the Russian study center at Cleveland's John Carroll University...
Hayden in currently free-lancing for a number of college newspapers, trying to report events which the national press has chosen to ignore or suppress. When Northern newspapers and weekly news magazines do get around to commenting on lynchings or riots such as those in Monroe, North Carolina, their information is so scanty that the average reader gets only a fuzzy and incomplete picture. Although the wire services generally send writers and photographers to survey the scene, the stories seldom find their way to the pages of newspapers outside the immediate area...
While agreeing with Rosset that "any law purporting to suppress a book is unconstitutional," London was nonetheless prepared to defend Tropic of Cancer against the Attorney General's charge...
...self-conscious and sometimes absurd adolescent, but he is also a doomed human being of special sensitivity?not merely special, as Salinger might say, but Special. As such, he sets the theme for almost everything Salinger has written since Catcher. Most men know how to ignore, suppress or outwit the occasional suspicion that the world is really not to be borne?but the young, the mad. and the saints do not know the trick. To varying degrees, most Salinger characters, includinging those in Franny and Zooey, belong in these three categories. Strangely enough, the young, slightly mad saints are also...