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...mockery. Rotten beans-"a special treat"-caused gagging, bloody vomiting and dysentery among 95% of the prisoners on the Isle of Pines. Those who fall sick are usually left to cure themselves, or die. A former Isle of Pines inmate described a typical case: "A man named Yáñez had an attack of epilepsy and fell from the second floor. He remained some ten or twelve hours without attention ... A few hours after he was taken out of there, he died...
Burden of Choice. Americans have never really learned to speak of the "masses." Vast crowds do not give the U.S. the sense of doom that Ortega y Gasset felt when he shuddered about "mass man." Yet, sheer numbers are an overwhelming factor in the individual's existence. Demographers calculate that, given a U.S. population density of ten people per square mile in the mid-19th century, each American inside a ten-mile radius could "interact" with about 3,000 others. But the density in the U.S. today is 60 people per square mile, making possible interaction with nearly...
Senator Kenneth B. Keating (R. N. Y.) declared Saturday that the federal government should intervene if the state of Alabama fails to uphold the right to free assembly of Negroes demonstrating in Birmingham...
...Faculty Y. Un-Faculty. Yet federal grants raise prickly problems. While graduate training blossoms, undergraduate education suffers. Top professors teach less and less, giving their prime loyalty more and more to some Government agency, which "becomes the new alma mater." Academe's "eternal class struggles" have worsened: today's "affluent professor'' is the scientist who gets more money and faster promotions leaving humanists behind and bitter. The regular faculty is being jostled by the "un-faculty"-nontenure researchers who do not belong to the faculty senate, but whose projects profoundly affect university planning and financing. "Excessive...
Lazarillo. It can hardly be called a novel: its title, La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus for tunas y adversidades, is almost as long as the shortest of its seven short chapters. And nobody knows who wrote it: the author modestly preferred anonymity to martyrdom. Nevertheless, Lazarillo made a decisive impact on European life and letters. Published in 1554, it was greeted with a loud...