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...recommend a single fifth-grade American history text. They talk of the wives of pioneers making linsey-woolsey dresses and men chopping down trees, but they omit things like the Monroe Doctrine. They are not subversive but childish. A fifth-grader deserves something better. I want elementary schoolchildren taught love of country at an early age. I make no bones about this. If this is indoctrination, I don't understand the meaning of the word. It's just common sense. There isn't any need for flag waving or emotionalism. All we need to do is teach...
Against tough competition, a square, greying woman stepped to the stage in the Yale Law School auditorium one night last week. In the hockey rink there was a lively game with Brown University; in Woolsey Hall there was a concert by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Elsewhere on the campus there were three other guest orators, including Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, who drew a full house at Yale Divinity School. But the opposition hardly fazed Novelist Ayn Rand, 55 (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged}, who considers herself the "most creative" philosopher alive today...
...unexpurgated copy of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. This week the surreptitious passing of tattered, badly printed copies comes to a halt. What may start is the noisiest censorship yap since James Joyce's Ulysses was declared literature by Federal Judge John M. Woolsey in 1933. Into the bookshops goes an unexpurgated edition (Grove Press; 368 pp.; $6), the first ever published in the U.S. It comes forearmed with assurances by pundits (Edmund Wilson, Jacques Barzun, Mark Schorer, Archibald MacLeish) that Lady Chatterley is not only a decent but an important book...
Bans & Brickbats. It seems strange that such views, widely accepted now, should have caused an uproar. But Married Love was published in 1918. Though it soon became a runaway bestseller in Britain, it remained banned in the U.S, as obscene until 1931, when Judge John M. Woolsey cleared it. (He later did the same for James Joyce's Ulysses.) Hard on the heels of Married Love, red-haired Author Stopes turned out Wise Parenthood. The idea of using artificial contraceptives to space pregnancies was then as repugnant to the Church of England as to the Church of Rome...
Enjoyed your June 3 review of Letters of James Joyce. TIME modestly forgot to mention what it did to publicize Joyce and his works, from Judge Woolsey's ruling on Ulysses* to Finnegans Wake. It was TIME which helped to introduce James Joyce to America's Main Street...