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...related question that Scott is often asked: Does TIME'S interpretive journalism usurp the reader's right to do his own thinking? That could be answered most simply by referring to the letters through which many of you talk back to TIME, and in which you clearly exercise the right to do your own thinking. The answers to your letters, written by members of TIME'S Letters department, make it evident, I hope, that TIME does listen hard to what you have to say. Every week, the Letters department distributes, to the staff, a mimeographed summary...
...three Rs), traced the responsibility for left-wing doctrines in the N.E.A. straight back to the late John Dewey and his disciples. All progressive education, she wrote, "has been a deliberate, calculated action by a small but powerful group of educators ... to change the character of American education radically . . . usurp parental authority and so nullify moral and spiritual influences...
...warned, "be lulled into a sense of false security if there is some delay in taking up these [civil rights] bills," which he called a "devil's brew." As his tie, ablaze with a Stars & Bars design, fluttered in the wet breeze, Byrd charged Truman with trying to "usurp state police power" by setting up a special FBI for the South, and with following "the primrose path to socialism...
When Dolly learns that Verena planned to usurp her beloved formula, she whispers to the boy. "To the tree house." A host of outcasts follows. Each one reveals his hopeless search for love, and, in the process, all feel a deep love towards one another. Although none forgets the Transformation, Verena, who is sick and needs sympathy, calls them back...
...20th Century." Farouk's advisers are worried over the King's public flouting of the ancient command: "Thou shalt not usurp thy brother's betrothed." Even his sister Fawzia does not try to defend his action, but shrugs the story off with: "It must be a joke-he can't really mean it." By censoring the Egyptian press and holding the threat of expulsion over foreign correspondents, the Egyptian government for years has tried to conceal Farouk's way of life and other noxious matter lying beneath Cairo's glitter. The King, however, will...