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...group of teachers and historians who reviewed The Land of the Free--A History of the United States for the Michigan Department of Education in 1972 concluded that May's book did not trace the history of racism or poverty...
...Victorian England, or wherever. These essays don't prove his thesis, but they flesh it out, and they are, as a group, a remarkably pleasant way of presenting supporting evidence. Far pleasanter for example, than the charts and tables historical demographers are forced to rely on while they trace the history of the nuclear family, or whatever their subject...
While TIME correspondents in Italy dug for proof of Castaneda's residence some 20 years ago in Milan, reporters in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro sought to trace his early years in South America. Correspondent Bernard Diederich visited known witchcraft centers in rural Mexico in search of Don Juan, and Sandra Burton herself traveled south of the border seeking the shaman. In New York, Reporter-Researcher Patricia Beckert interviewed Castaneda's friends and fellow anthropologists...
Graduate students have since retreated from this stance, and are now seemingly content to look after nothing more than their own financial interests. As members of the now largely inactive Union ponder why undergraduates have lost interest in their cause, they would do well to trace the disillusionment to the changed position in their policy...
...STICK, by Thomas P.F. Hoving (1931-). A standing figure, slightly over lifesize, wearing a purple toga with a capital S (for Superman) on the chest, in red, now faded. The left hand points to a Master Plan. Despite reports in the New York Times, radiographic examination reveals no trace of horns or pointed tail in the under painting. In the background, above a landscape with kiosks and parking lots thought to represent Central Park, various allegorical groups symbolize the Master's career...