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Enrollment for one of the two-week periods is around 16; the students in the first session last summer, which covered libertarian philosophy, included an elderly osteopath and his wife from Arkansas, two teachers from Rockford, Ill., two Milwaukee businessmen, a young psychologist now at Columbia, a Baptist minister from Colorado, and a professional anti-Communist from the West Coast...
...Freedom School teaches, essentially, the freedom of individual man and the injustice of institutional force. To the school's devotees, life's two worst evils are taxes and schools. Taxes are a highly objectionable example of the coerciveness that necessitates the eventual abolition of central government. Compulsory public school education is a vice and a tool of the existing order, teaching socialism on government handouts...
...short, it teaches that man has two absolute rights--to life and to property. There is never a conflict between these two privileges, and one is no good without the other. It is a wildly different, extremely right-wing way of thinking, but the Freedom School perseveres and prospers in the far mountains...
Typical of Amen's more genial work is To Wonder At, a color print depicting a pony-tailed little girl gazing in awe at a large bouquet. The flowers, which take up two-thirds of the picture, would make a tasteful composition standing by themselves. One's attention, however, is drawn to the pouting face which, well done though it is, reminds one of something from a comic strip. Eyes of Wonder portrays a very similar little girl, this time showing her in full face and emphasizing her large, dark and somewhat watery eyes. As one prospective customer remarked...
...mingling of these two attitudes arouses one's curiosity as to the dates of particular woodcuts. The Schuster Gallery, however, supplies none of this information. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the show is minimized by a careless arrangement that breaks up obvious sets, such as Adam and Eve, and ignores considerations of size and color. But what remains the most regrettable artistic defect of this exhibit is the burial of some works of artistic worth in a mass of readily salable trivia...