Dear Editor
Dear Editor Moynihan Gus Tyler did a superb job of puncturing Pat Moynihan's fable of the Family Assistance Plan ("The Politics of Pat Moynihan," NL. April 2). As a welfare reform program. FAP was...
...The three questions he posed in making his study are important ones and his experience in England enabled him to delineate essential elements in the answers...
...Parodying Jonathan Livingston Seagull...
...however, is more or less the equivalent of mugging a derelict...
...It was this factor, manifesting itself in the form of a crippling heart attack, that eliminated Frol Kozlov from active political life in April 1963...
...Everything in Western Europe and the United States—politics, economics, art, ideology—appears to be at the point of some kind of important change...
...If the disunited United States instituted such a system—based on cooperation between the government and the press—it would last about as long as the amount of time Richard Nixon requires to get through one of Jack Anderson's columns...
...To me...
...Satire is only effective when the object of the attack occupies some position of power or prestige, and is therefore worth taking seriously...
...Perhaps it is appropriate that the father of FAP would create a fraudulent literature to glorify its death...
...after Khrushchev's overthrow ) was a more dangerous threat to Khrushchev than Professor Brzezinski indicates...
...Washington Robert Corman...
...March 5) is thoughtful and informative...
...Today the old formulas no longer apply (even if Georges Pompidou did insure his recent victory with a last-minute appeal to French anti-Communism), but the new ideas, the new directions, have not yet emerged...
...thereby helping clear the way for Brezhnev's rise to the top in 1964...
...The voluntary system Salpeter describes is possible only because a consensus exists on the nation's goals—or at least on its enemies...
...But the image of Richard Milhous Nixon as an embattled advocate of the poor, fighting helplessly against the special interests, is unlikely to make it into the future legitimate histories of these times...
...Stephanie Atkins Sovietology In his very interesting article...
...The usually entertaining Richard J. Mar-golis really came a cropper with "Getting Gulled" (NL...
...Concord, Mass...
...FAP was a fraud from the beginning...
...I firmly expect, however, that a European trade union movement that eschews both dogmatic Marxism and rigid nationalism, something like the infant ETUC...
...The hope is that out of this will come a growth and quality of learning that are very different from and much more beneficial than the results of the rote performances characteristic of so many traditional forms of education...
...incidentally, did not die until January 1965...
...American Federation of State...
...March 19...
...Who Will Succeed Brezhnev...
...East Lansing, Mich...
...There is a fourth question, however, that needs answering in order to understand the origin of the open classroom efforts he describes: Namely, what are the teachers' views of how children learn...
...as an educator involved in the development of open classroom programs throughout our Lower School, a commitment to open classroom education stems from a commitment to adapt instruction to the lives of children and to offer them the opportunity to participate in a learning/expressing process...
...Robert M. Slusser Open Schools Irving Spitzberg's report on open classroom schools in England ("Visiting Britain's Open Classrooms," NL...
...It was the gains Kozlov registered in his covert assault on Khrushchev's political base at the 22nd Party Congress in 1961 which ensured the success of the palace revolution that toppled Khrushchev three years later...
...Spitzberg is quite correct in noting that a great deal remains to be done in order to make the open classroom approach more effective...
...Brooklyn John Darr Head of the Lower School, Brooklyn Friends Schoool Censorship Eliahu Salpeter's article, "Censorship in a Gossipy Democracy" (NL, April 2), was interesting reading, not merely for what it tells us about Israeli society but also for what it says about our own...
...Kozlov (who...
...Philadelphia James Cummings ETUC's Role I was intrigued by Silvio F. Senigallias short piece on the European Trade Unions Confederation ("Correspondents' Correspondence," NL, April 2...
...This is, of course, related to the exhaustion of Cold War structures that have determined political alignments since the end of World War II...
...Washington J miry Wurf International President...
...Thus The Politics of a Guaranteed Income may well be remembered as the first revisionist history of the Nixon Administration...
...will play a large role in shaping the world we are all going to live in...
...Yet the inspiration for such improvement is daily to be found in the lively and joyful responses of children to an educational setting that reflects respect for them as individuals...
...County and Municipal Employees Comp...
...Zbig-niew Brzezinski wisely makes allowance for unforeseen developments arising out of our comparative ignorance about the health of many top Soviet leaders...
Vol. 56 • April 1973 • No. 9
