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...Heflin plays the tortured man with rare balance. As the doctors force his personality into a crippling semblance of text-book sanity, he realizes he must bend or remain permanently in an insane asylum. Behind the doctors is always his wife, their symbol of sanity, and finally he grovels before her rather than remain with the terror of the hospital's inmates and its cold, insensitive physicians. Gradually, then, Heflin's will bends, and breaks completely...
Edward H. Addelson '39, 10G, supervisor for the Study Counsel Bureau, will give the course. He has written a special 60-page text-book for the course called "A Short Review of English Grammar...
...opening wedge in a campaign of standardization all along the line that will gradually stiffen U. S. education into one unshakable pattern. They pass around the story of the French Minister of Education who proudly declared that at any given moment he could tell what page of what text-book each child in the country was reading. American education needs to be supported by national funds, these educators admit, but diversity and the chance to experiment are too important to lose for the sake of sheer productivity...
Professor Harlow Shapley will enter the fight for wider classroom freedom with a new Commission for Academic Freedom which starts work next week in New York. He named recent text-book and magazine bannings and threats against teachers who "exercise political rights" as the main causes for grievance...
...English Jew, presenting Koestler's views, is confronted with the fundamental question plaguing all Palestinian Jews both today and during the 1937-1939 period in which the action of the book takes place: can the Jewish need for a home in Palestine be better met by the peaceful text-book tactics which have brought frustration, or by the more expedient terrorist activities tainted with the unsavory odor of gangsterism? It takes Joseph two years to decide upon the second course. Through Joseph's eyes, Koestler gives the reader a vivid impression of a typical Marxist agricultural commune, and the immense...