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...transmitted to a distraught, prayer-drunk, 20-year-old girl. Apart from questioning the depth of this message, critics?notably Alfred Kazin, who apologizes solemnly for having to say it?have suggested that the Glass children are too cute and too possessed by self-love. The charge is unjust. They are too clearly shadowed by death, even in their woolliest, most kittenish moments, to be cute, and they are too seriously worried about the very danger of self-love to be true egotists...
...limits on cash reserves as low as $300, can require the liquidation of other assets such as cars, can require homeowners to mortgage their houses to the state, the title to change after the death of both spouses. Kerr-Mills critics find the means test demeaning, and the lien unjust, but A.M.A.'s Larson maintains that "there's nothing wrong with taking it after they're dead...
...early, vigorous fiction that brought him fame, John Steinbeck wrote in the language of the outcast and sided with the outsiders. It was an ambiguous form of social protest, since Steinbeck sometimes seemed less at war with the unjust acts of society than with the fact of society. One never quite knew whether his heroes wanted to storm the barricades or take to the woods and play hooky from the machine age. In Dubious Battle found him siding with Communist labor organizers, but in Tortilla Flat he sided with an amorally jolly bunch of vagrants and winos. In The Grapes...
...harsh, but by no means unjust ruling...
Your article "Programed Learning" is most unjust in its blanket criticism of textbooks. How did your education editor and Psychologist Skinner get so smart using the allegedly dull, inflexible, incomprehensible textbooks? And without the benefit of a programed learning machine...