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...Having taught college mathematics for several years, the writer is familiar with the situation described in your July 28 article and heartily approves any attempt to improve it. One of the illustrations is not clear: "For every x and y, if the cost of a book is 2y - 3 dollars, then the total cost of 7x such books...
...dollars." No relationship between x and y is given, and the question is impossible both abstractly and concretely. Or are we to assume that x = 2y -3? It looks as if your Education editor might be among those for whom it is proposed to reform the teaching of mathematics...
...meet the demands of TV. With all the talk of "electronic journalism," the show itself will have more to live up to this year: ¶ To brief the delegates and alternates-the real actors in the convention drama-and give them an idea of the camera's X-ray powers, CBS last month aired two (one for each party) closed-circuit "orientation broadcasts" to 167 affiliate stations, showing how TV plans to cover the conventions. Top commentators urged delegates to be "natural and sincere," warned that the relentless camera catches not only the impassioned oratory but private mutterings...
...presumably for his leanings toward semi-Pelagianism (heretical insistence on man's perfectibility without God's help), but Attwater prefers to call him "anti-Augustinian." Other newcomers are those canonized since Butler's day-among them Joan of Arc, Terese of Lisieux, Pope St. Pius X, Mother Cabrini (first U.S. citizen to be canonized), Father Isaac Jogues and seven other French Jesuit missionaries martyred by Indians in Canada and New York...
...HAVEN'T SEEN HER LATELY, by E. X. Ferrars (186 pp.; Doubleday; $2.75), asks some arresting questions but dawdles a little too long over the answers. Has dear old Aunt Violet, married late in life, been done in by a Bluebeard husband? Or is she merely being driven out of her mind so that he can control her property and income? The nicely drawn English countryside is pleasant and relaxing, but the colorless romance of Aunt Violet's niece, who spearheads the inquiries, is soporific...