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...Hirsch's villain is Educational Philosopher John Dewey, who, in his landmark 1915 treatise Schools of Tomorrow, espoused the learning of skills rather than information. The long-range result, says Hirsch, is that children can now decode words but lack the understanding to put what they read into broad, insightful context. The Hirsch antidote: heavy doses of Western cultural lore, as represented by a list of nearly 5,000 entries in an appendix labeled "What Literate Americans Know," ranging from A ("act of God") to Z ("Zeitgeist"), and including "1066" and "White Christmas (song)." Knowing at least a commercial idea...
...Untouchables,that healthy cynicism about the role of law enforcement officers has given way to pure myth. One crusading knight, in the character of Ness, is out to stop the terrorism of one arch villain. The Chicago gangster Al Capone. It doesn't matter that the legal touches of the dramatic ending--involving a switch of juries--are patently illegal...
...satisfied with one that shows ordinary intercourse. Then he fantasizes that he is doing what he sees on the tape. Finally, he turns to his wife and wants to act out kinky sex. She says, 'Get lost!,' and the marriage breaks up." Nor is porn the only villain, in the opinion of Dr. Thomas Radecki, chairman of the National Coalition on Television Violence. He contends that 25% to 50% of violence in society is due to the culture of violence established on TV and in the movies...
...acquire an empire for us, which you have done." Roosevelt, by contrast, is the "fat little President," a bellicose figure of fun with a falsetto voice, a habit of clicking his "tombstone teeth" and laughing like a "frenzied watchdog." These denigrations largely fall flat. In Burr, Vidal turned a villain into a hero, suggesting that another truth could be found on the dark side of legend; here the issue of Roosevelt's buffoonery hardly matters, since he is portrayed as simply following in the revered McKinley's footsteps...
...fact, Pfeiffer argues, a series of meetings and memos shows that senior officials of the CIA's intelligence division and Pentagon planners were briefed at all stages of the discussion. According to Pfeiffer, the conventional view casting Bissell as the villain of the tale is reflected in a damning report by the CIA's inspector general at the time, Lyman Kirkpatrick. Although Kirkpatrick, 70, who resigned from the CIA in 1965, ordered the destruction of all the records on which his report was based, Pfeiffer managed to uncover the material. He says it led him to conclude that Kirkpatrick...