Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contained in the textbook are English and German passages, so devised that a prisoner first reads the German text to a group and an American instructor then reads the English. Divided into thirty units, the text including ninety days of instruction, at the end of which period of prisoner should have a fairly substantial speaking and reading knowledge of the language...
...Embree, president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Added Dr. Embree: the average U.S. undergraduate lacks curiosity, has little or no understanding of his own motivations, is intellectually unfit to have a vote in world affairs. The cause: too much natural science, "too much fealty to the rote of the textbook." Suggested improvement: more attention to the social and psychological sciences...
...letters. The consumptive parson himself was more interesting than charming. So violently attracted to women that he could hardly focus his emotions on any one of them, he clothed his writing in delicate salacity, his love-making in delicate sentiment. Mr. Quennell sums up A Sentimental Journey as "a textbook on feeling"; but its author eludes...
...Rhyme or Reason. Authors and publishers will be hard put to it to find from this volume why these best-sellers were bestsellers. The Bible remains the champion best-seller of all times, but its closest U.S. competitor is Noah Webster's Blue-Back Speller, a textbook first published in 1790 which has sold more than 100 million copies...
Nobody ever reads a science textbook for fun. But scientists, as distinct from textbook writers, have sometimes been highly readable writers. Proof of it is available this week in a new collection of the history-making but seldom-read writings of 100 of the world's greatest scientists. It is The Autobiography of Science (Doubleday, Doran; $4), edited by Forest Ray Moulton, secretary of the American Association for the Advance ment of Science, and Justus J. Schifferes. By & large, this anthology bears out its editors' assertion that "good science makes good reading." Three cases in point...