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...Morton Sobell, David Greenglass, Harry Gold, (alias Alexand(~r Stevens), to whom Whittaker Chambers acted as courier, and Jacob Golos, as well as Klaus Fuchs,'who had been cleared by British security...
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...However, in the interest of accuracy, we should like to point out that we did not invent the Adam Smith necktie...
...Jamieson's article is further proof that today one simply can't trust everything one reads in the media or in scholarly tabloid journals printed on cheap paper...
...As the snippets above suggest, Paul Johnson is a pleasure to read...
...A ~Hg, J~/SH/l~y ", "A bold aM capacious mind is required for what Paul Johnson has undertaken in this book: a history of the world during the last 60 years, taking in all continents and major countries...
...The "model" used, "the Prisoner's Dilemma," is stacked in favor of cooperation at all times: thus, it is little surprise that a "cooperative" program would win against a broad range of "opponents...
...Maybe we can help fix it...
...Former Watergate security guard Frank Wills has been hired to help market the diet drink and to coauthor the Dick Gregory~Frank Wills Watergate Break-In Cookbook...
...These neckties, with the famous Tassie Medallion cameo profile of the Sainted Adam were first "manufactured and sewed" by a conservative student group at St...
...He said he was against any attempt 'to smuggle fascism into America through the back door...
...In addition, if one regards "gain" over a less-than-infinite time span (i.e., one's own life), even the premise of fixed rewards will not deter use of a shortterm-gains policy...
...All the founding fathers of totalitarianism, Hitler and Mussolini included, were socialists in principle...There are 20 closely-packed chapters in the book, and I must content myself with a modest selection to convey its riches . . . . we can take a great deal of intellectual pleasure in his book, which is a truly distinguished work of history...
...He calls Gandhi a 'sorcerer's apprentice' whose rhetoric of nonviolence was 'nonsense,' given the turmoil he ignited . . . . About American affairs Johnson is extremely keen...
...Lesson Three I learned when I was transferred into a neighborhood of upper-middle-class parents, where the children were much easier to teach, but the methods were exactly the same...
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...She divided the children into three sections, continued to do this for several weeks, until I became proficient...
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...Lesson One for those who strive for excellence: a superior should not only evaluate, but also help, which is what she did for me and the children...
...The Prisoner's Dilemma is a useful and accurate model for real-life biological and human situations...
...My poems are sometimes not so swell...
...Certainly no further away than Bloomington...
...However, we regret that there are still many great Americans who do not own even one Adam Smith necktie...
...On many issues he was a liberal . . . . He did not make anti-Semitic jokes, like Woodrow Wilson and his wife or Franklin Roosevelt...
...comparing American corporate management policies as a whole with almost any other industrialized democracy points this out...
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...Stephen Settle Director of Communications Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights Milwaukee, Wisconsin Excellence in Education The September issue on "Excellence in Education: The First Year,' is the best thing I have seen so far on the need and the means to rectify American education's slide into bedlam...
...She CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 9) more and more like Mario Cuomo and less and less like Mencken...
...It will come | automatically...
...Sound familiar...
...Run that one by usone more time and let's see if we can get a net over it...
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...And one who manages to be both stylish and blunt Rarely does a work of history receive from major publications the unbridled enthusiasm that is greeting Modem T/ma...
...I taught reading, writing, and numbers...
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...Commanding officers who visited the front were appalled at these "outbreaks of peace," and would rant and rave about fighting units that " d i d n ' t seem to know there was a war going o n . " But as soon as they left, things would return to their "normal" cooperative equilibrium...
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...He stands in the train of those historians of the last two centuries for whom historical writing seemed profitless unless it yielded up revelations and judgments pertinent to the world around us . . . . By far the greater part of Mr...
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...The message was composed in a nearly illegible combination of lower- and upper-case print...
...I had been taught "how to teach," but not how to cope with and organize so many children, some of whom had never been to kindergarten...
...Perhaps this is losing something in translation...
...What the hell, I'd rather pen a bit of fluff Than knock somebody on their duff...
...Some hard decisions have to be made here as well as in other states specifying the future of higher education...
...Axelrod gives numerous examples where real-life cooperation has evolved--even in the most adverse circumstances...
...Each of these is administered on school time with school personnel, detracting not only from direct learning time for students, but from essential supervision, guidance, and teaching time for professional educators...
...Can anti-clericalism _9 . . be far off...
...If it's not from Tony Alamo or Planned Parenthood, it's you guys...
...He does far more than rely on computer print-outs...
...But I don't think it applies in the case of the "Prisoner's Dilemma...
...But he sees the distinction as being without much difference...
...Jesse Jackson appeared on "Saturday Night Live...
...On every computer sold there should be attached an OSHA-grade warning sticker: GIGO--that is, "Garbage In, Garbage Out," a caution familiar to old hands who grew up with flaky equipment but lost on many neophytes, especially social researchers...
...Andrews in the late 1960s...
...Mencken and Millard Fillmore T-shirts...
...Only the very best prepared, experienced teachers should be placed in the early grades...
...Thus, the Prisoner's Dilemma is not "stacked in favor of cooperation at all times...
...One would not have to be a "Lion among Christians" in order to run up a high score in this situation...
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...He speaks contemptuously of 'the Watergate witch-hunt,' brought about by people in the media . . . . he is not fooled by the favorable publicity the 'activist' (read: leftist) judiciary has received at home...But he ends on a note of hope, seeing 'palimpsests of freedom' amid the destruction...
...Your highminded, reference to America's Roman Catholic bishops as "brat kids" earns you our first annual Ernest Hollings Award for original insight into the rights of religious expression-formerly the Samuel F.B...
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...Fill in the blanks with the people PaUl Johnson is referring to: "The invasion [of Washington], one visiting statesman observed, was 'like watching the Borgia brothers take over a respectable north Italian town...
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...On the third day, the assistantprincipal came in to observe...
...When one side did kill someone, the other retaliated immediately, on the principle of "two tits for one tat...
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...Fortunately, the author possesses in abundance the qualities neeessary to the enterprise . . . . unites historical and critical consciousness . . . . Johnson is most interested throughout in drawing conclusions, many of them provocative, from his materials...
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...John T. McCarty Vice President Corporate Public Affairs Adolph Coors Company Golden, Colorado I am inspired by the articles on excellence in education to add my "two cent's worth" to the discussion: The other day I had a letter from a grand-nephew thanking me for a graduation gift...
...Or tell the Commies to get stuffed...
...O'Rourke Garbage In, Garbage Out In William Tucker's review of The Evolution of Cooperation (TAS, September 1984) there may be less cause for celebration than voiced...
...Joseph Sobran, National Review How to get t h i s massive $27.95 volume FREE How do you s c o r e on men and events...
...Robert Nisbet, page 1, NY Times Book Review "Brilliant, densely textured, intellectually challenging...skillfully compressed...powerfully cautionary book...
...Page 458) "Yet was not a statist...
...But both sides were careful never to initiate hostilities...
...To a very wide spectrum of educated American opinion, he was the leading American public man...
...The demonstrators were protesting big business, the arms race, unemployment, and the use of animals for medical experiments...
...Herewith an extract from his works: than killing and murdering...
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...if "economy" cannot be modeled successfully then how can the far more complex interaction of human desires and aspirations...
...A burglar who is continually given wrist-tap sentences, for example, will be able to pursue a successful career as a "non-cooperator" with regard to other people's property...
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...We thank you for this opportunity to correct the record...
...Johnson's book is concerned with...the will to power...It is in this light that Mr...
...Frederic Wile New York, New York THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1984 59 Are you as informed as you'd l i k e t o b e about a l l t h e g r e a t e v e n t s and movements o f your l i f e t i m e ? For the first time: a sweeping, detailed survey of the significant events of our century . - by a conservative...
...O. Young San Diego, California I wanted you to know that I am distributing copies of the September American Spectator to my fellow members of the Colorado commission analyzing the future of higher education in this state...
...Some were slow, but not called "learning-disabled," or any of the other fancy categories that can be an excuse for not teaching them anything...
...As a young teacher, just out of training-school, I was overwhelmed by forty-five "IB" children, who came into my room the first day...
...The September issue will be most helpful...
...So, if you're : available...
...I thought back to what was required of my first-grade children when I was a teacher...
...JohnsOn's book is devoted to tracing the spread of Leninism, and all its ramifications, in the world...
...mWilliam D. A. Geary Deer Park, New York William Tucker replies: There is some sense to Mr...
...Excellence must be taught from the very first grade...
...Journal "Rip-roaring survey of the pathology of modern relativism...provocative...
...We considered Bob Tyrrell and Ed Feulner T-shirts, but so far the market demand for these has been very minimal...
...Instead, the 1984 prize for literature went to Czech poet Jaroslav Seifert...
...Ordinarily we sharply distinguish communism from what became known as fascism...
...Elizabeth Livingston Fort Myers, Florida Notably absent from your otherwise excellent symposium.., are the deleterious effects of numerous governmentally mandated programs, bearing at best indirect influence upon academic growth and achievement . . . . In recent years, judges and legislators, both anxious to "do good," the latter perhaps also eager to build political constituencies, have compelled school personnel to administer among other things meals, transportationt, immunization, learning disability screening, and redundant testing programs...
...I should mention that this first assignment was in a very poor neighborhood, and the children would today be called "underprivileged...
...Johnson sees the rise, commencing with Lenin, of 'gangsterstatesmen.' Among them he includes most prominently Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler and Mao Zedong...
...Norma and Don Lipsett Props, The Decatur Shop One Tyrrell Square North Adams The People's Republic of Michigan High Jesuitry Just came across your July "Continuing Crisis.'t Congratulations...
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...They were taught to write (script) from a to z, and could recite the alphabet...
...Each program, without speaking to its merits or demerits, is administered in the least cost effective, time efficient way, with the full panoply of ever multiplying forms, deadlines, supervisors, auditors . . . . I would suggest an assault by H. Ross Perot or by a Grace commission to investigate and provide recommendations for solutions to this problem...
...Their crime at that time was in seeking passage of tuition tax credits for low and moderate income private school families...
...Thanks to our multi-million dollar advertising campaign (in The American Spectator and elsewhere), we have in the past decade sold thousands of the Adam Smith cravats...
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...Time "Delicious...Johnson's verdicts on historical figures are shl'ewd and unsparing...
...But he's sounding (continued on page 59) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1984 9 PERSONALS SOCIAL INTRODUCTIONS to ladies from Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand through correspondence for lasting relationships...
...It is there that children get the instruction in tools they will use for the rest of theirlives, as well as the rest of their" school years...
...This last truth is the most important of all that I learned fifty years ago, when I taught in the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Public Schools...
...von Dreele, Jeff MacNelly, and other such notables (not to mention this writer) have been passed over by the Nobel people...
...Keep it up, and you'll be changing your banner to "the American Nativist...
...They would exchange perfunctory artillery rounds--often hitting the exact same targets every day with such regularity that "you could set your watch b y i t . " In some instances, snipers would hit the exact same spot on dugouts hundreds of times, just to let the other side know what they could do...
...What Jaroslav probably means is: Poesy's with us all the time, Like sex and death and gin and lime...
...Hey, so sue me...
...As he notes himself, the highest score can be achieved, not by cooperating, but by consistently betraying the other person...
...Probably his best example is the "Live and Let Live" policy that arose spontaneously among soldiers facing each other across the trenches during World War I. Stuck in a long-term "prisoner's dilemma," soldiers on both sides fell into a policy o f "don't-fire-unless-fired-upon...
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...This boy is about to become a freshman in college...
...Modern Times is a welcome change, compulsively readable...
...It seems that Tucker has fallen for the old trap of circular reasoning and the relatively new one of, " I f the computer agrees it must be right...
...In my review of The Evolution of Cooperation, I may not have put enough emphasis on the real-life examples that author Robert Axelrod is able to marshal in support of his argument...
...This type of gnostic proof of moral values is often defeated by the complex nature of humanity...
...In the first place, "print is for books, script is for people...
...The Decatur Shop initially imported some of these ties and then started offering our own version in the early 1970s...
...Geary's point, in that the scoring of any game can be "rigged" to produce the desired results...
...Yes, you're a clever young brood of curmudgeons, and your editor is an awful bright boy...
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...oNature note: More than 7,000 caribou drowned in Quebec as a result of hydro-electric dams built because coal-burning generators damage the environment...
...The Spirit of Adam Smith We very much enjoyed T. John Jamieson's "Dressed to Kill" (TAS, August 1984...
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...I've read that some students today can't use dictionaries...
...Lesson Two came from the secondgrade teacher, who always took me to task if any children I passed on to her did not have the required vocabulary, could not "sound out" the words via phonetics, or for any reason should have been required to repeat the grade...
...Still less often does such a book by a conservative enjoy this kind of reception...
...These days it's the ominous peace pastoral or the Church's reflections on economic justice which serve as the source o f the prelates' rejuvenation as well as a target for outrage from civil religionists on the right_9 Although none of the hierarchy are Jesuits, we may be comfortably certain that the Church is up to her usual "high jesuitry"--i.e, doing her job--when she catches hell in stereo, as has been the case of late...
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...One would only have to be a noncooperator living in a society that is not very diligent in punishing infractions...
...Page 243) History Without Tears We stick with many a book because it's good for us, because we ought to read it...
...Indeed, the only way to rack up more points is to be so blessed as to be in a population of "Christians" (always cooperate) and pursue a "Lion" policy ("screw you, Jack...
...In Mr...
...But, the real world does not cooperate in simple models: The "values" of cooperation and antagonism vary continually, with evil often triumphing at least in the short term and under its Own idea of "gain," and the best of cooperative policies often coming to disastrous ends...
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...These and other instances illustrated that Axelrod's model is more than just a matter of "garbage in, garbage out...
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