Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure countless U.S. educators were dismayed with TIME'S discussion of "Standards for Noah's Ark?" [March 16] pleading for increased federal quasi-control of public schools. Rickover missed the point, i.e., our commitment to principles of Jeffersonian democracy and the local wisdom and dedication that have produced American public schools second to none without benefit of a national curriculum. The solution to the U.S. education crisis is not through variations of reform conjured up by a Washington, D.C., elite. Reform must stem from the opposite direction. Provide tax assistance to deprived areas, but spare them Rickover...
WILLIAM H. WISDOM Cherry Hill...
...novels of Peter De Vries, life's devious ways have been crosscurrents in a happy sea of absurdity. In Comfort Me with Apples and The Tunnel of Love, adultery was the only way to hold a marriage together; there was power in futility, wisdom in platitudes and, of course, virtue in vice. But always there have been signs that inside the humorist, a serious novelist was struggling to get out. Now, in The Blood of the Lamb, absurdity becomes tragic, and De Vries says what has been on his lips all along: life is a joke...
Expressing doubts about the wisdom of increased specialization, Finley warned that it is getting harder for students "to keep an individual identity," particularly those students from the suburbs. Finley likened suburbs to "Indian reservations" in their shelteredness from the "working world...
...analytical epilogue featuring guests with responsible-sounding names and six-inch titles. This week's visitor is Dr. Aaron Rutledge, whose billing is "Director of the American Association of Marriage Counselors and Head of the Counseling and Psychotherapy Program at the Merrill-Palmer School in Detroit." His wisdom will be seined with questions that range upward in difficulty from "Are there promiscuous men?" to "Does promiscuity itself constitute a threat to our society?" Unsurprisingly, NBC's Specials for Women have been showered with awards from organizations like Fame magazine and Radio-TV Mirror. The Specials for Women...