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Frede's diagnosis may be accurate for a segment of the present college generation, but it is certainly to glib. Bogard suggests that "we've been taught a helluva lot of Don'ts and almost no Do's." causes of apathy are much deeper and more complex than Frede's closing explanation suggests. In sum, the author fails to convince the reader that he is capable of more than a tabloid presentation of character or idea...
...according to the New York World, "the U.S. was never closer to a social revolution than at the time Roosevelt became President." Around T.R. in his last year in the White House, their productivity racing ahead of population, surged 88 million Americans, men in derbies in the new Model Ts, women in the new sheath gowns and Merry Widow hats, teen-agers shouting Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay and Take Me Out to the Ball Game and taking in George M. Cohan in The Yankee Prince...
...responsible kids, Rocket Fuel Expert Francis Warren of the Southwest Research Institute has some useful "don'ts...
Without visibly mounting blood pressure, the group adopted a new and greatly simplified code of ethics for doctors. Main departure from the old code was in brevity: instead of some 5,000 words, the new code sums up dos and don'ts in a mere 500. Dropped completely are former sections advising doctors on information for the public, patents and copyrights-and punctuality. Main emphasis, unchanged, is on service and integrity: "The principal objective of the medical profession is to render service to humanity with full respect for the dignity of man . . . The medical profession should safeguard the "public...
...following quotation from a poem by Tu Fu (712 to 770 A.D.) concerning Han Kan, the T'ang Dynasty painter of Cowherd. The poem, A Song of a Painting (in my English version* from the literal English text of Kiang Kang-hu), is addressed to General Ts'ao, who was a painter of war horses preceding Han Kan. Tu Fu, easily one of China's greatest poets, would apparently not have agreed with your estimate of Han Kan as being "China's greatest painter of horses...