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...this land of plenty, glutted with wealth, we lack the essential ethical currency for its use, and so we are threatened with cultural bankruptcy." The challenger was Henry P. Van Dusen, president of the faculty of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Last week, in a tightly reasoned "tract for the times"-God in Education (Scribner; $2)-Van Dusen sounded a call for a fundamental reversal in the whole philosophy of U.S. education...
This week the two yanquis are back in the U.S. for a brief vacation. They plan to return to Nicaragua shortly, and have already signed up a 700-acre tract at Tipitapa for their second crop. They will need two more tractors, two more jeeps, plenty of equipment and supplies. But they expect to have no trouble financing these expanded operations: their 170-bale first crop brought them a net profit of nearly...
...fiction, The Age of Longing is as unsuccessful as any tract whose characters are drawn from an ideological casting bureau. As reporting, it is generally stimulating and occasionally brilliant. The gallery of French intellectuals is particularly well drawn, the futility of their bickering sharply exposed. And no one now writing can get inside the Communist mind with Koestler's sureness. Inside that mind are all the answers. Koestler no longer believes in those answers, but he remembers that when he did believe in them, he was happy. He hugs the cold comfort of democracy ("a half-truth...
...that since "not a single line [was] erased by [Inquisition censors] during his lifetime," Cervantes' dedication to Catholicism cannot be questioned. Right or wrong, MacEóin gives over so much of his space to supporting this single thesis that his book often reads more like a religious tract than a dispassionate analysis of Cervantes' life and writings...
...over the implications of this, David hit them again, out of his knowledge that Moscow had sent Professor Davidenkov, Russian heart specialist, to attend ailing Maurice Thorez. Next morning every registered doctor in Paris received a Paix et Liberté pamphlet. "A snub to the medical profession!" cried the tract. "Are French doctors unworthy or inefficient?" Yelped the Communist press: "Neo-Goebbelism . . . David is a Wall Street pawn...