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Phanny, v. 3, issue 3, December 1944

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expressed idea that such a code was neither necessary, nor likely to be succesful. I'll take this one the way it is. -- "Racial Equality" -- excellent; I think that I can now let the subject drop, as being well sewed up; but I still have a couple brickbats for Speer; he left some gaping holes in his latest opus along this line. -- "Presenting....Buck" -- Hmmmm; reads very much like some modern poetry I've seen, only this seems to make a crazy sort of sense. Buck should have come sooner.
   I didn't give your bit of verse a chance to work on what passes for my "sense of fantasy;" I was in too big a hurry to get on with the Mailing. And of course, after reading your interpretation, there wasn't much chance of carrying through an independent integration. Besides, about the only time such stuff can work on me--but good--is just after I go to bed; 'tis on such food my insomnia feeds. (the insomnia seems to thrive on it, too!) But in any case, I would scarcely have followed the same path you did, and the pictures probably wouldn't have been so vivid. -- "Davis vs. Chauvenet" - looks like Davis will have to clinch to weather this round.
BANSHEE #5 (A) I don't mind waiting a while for a fanzine like this, Larry; it is genuinely good from beginning to end. I especially liked "Raymeses" and Spencer's "The Metamorphosis of John Q. Spingtumper." The poll was interesting, although the obvious horse-play of the few largely negated any value it might otherwise have had. Speer's deductions were more interesting than the poll itself. "The Ruler Is No More," while well up to fan standards, was worthy of better handling.
   Raym has a knack for parody, but it took more than a knack to produce "Raymeses." "Raymeses" will stand several re-readings. Within its lines can be found an amazingly complete, satirical summary of the tempests-in-a-teapot which have made up the high points in recent fan history. If you can't find a reference to yourself, you just haven't been around much lately. This is Raym's best to date, and the best thing of its sort I've seen in FAPA. --Reviews-- look; three of them! Some guys are gonna object, but not me; I enjoyed 'em.
THE NUCLEUS (B+) Trudy, the children of Hamden are very lucky; not only because they are going to have a teacher with ideas and ideals, but because they live in a town where these ideas and ideals will be given a chance of expression. I hope nothing stops you. Teaching of the type you hope to do is spreading, but only very slowly. There are a great [?] schools in which you wouldn't even be permitted to try out the newer methods you have been taught.
   The kind of school ofwhich I wrote is beginning to go, I'm glad to say; but it will be a long, long time before it is gone forever. The school in which special provisions are made for pupils of superior abilities may be inferior to the type of which you write, with proper stimuli are actually present; but it is still true that in the usual school class-room, the curriculum is suited to the gait of the dullards, and there is very little that the individual teacher can do about it. How would you like to teach in a school in which the policies were largely dictated by a school-board of opinionated local politicians, only one of whom had gotten beyond the fifth grade in school; a board which even attempted to get around the elementary requirements set up by the State and County? I had that pleasant experience, Trudy, and it wasn't good. And schools like that still exist, in many places.
   All sorts of fads and systems have flared up briefly, and finally ended by leaving a little of genuine worth, in the schools of this country during the past fifty years. The progressivism of which you write seems to a logical outcome of many of these abortive experiments of the past. I hope it continues to grow.
   Yes, the Reader's Digest is a bit conservative, Trudy; I always buy a copy of some other, rather radical Digest, along with it, as a sort of counter-irratant; works fine. -- Bravo for your comments on "Black andWhite" and on Unionism; no doubt you will get sneers from some directions, and the conservatives, if they wish, can find plenty of loop-holes in your arguments; you cover too much ground too brief a space to plug them all, even if you could; but in general, I think your remarks are sound. And like Spencer, I've a notion you've grown a lot.

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9 P H A N N Y 9 ______________________________ expressed idea that such a code was neither necessary, nor likely to be succesful. I'll take this one the way it is. -- "Racial Equality" -- excellent; I think that I can now let the subject drop, as being well sewed up; but I still have a couple brickbats for Speer; he left some gaping holes in his latest opus along this line. -- "Presenting....Buck" -- Hmmmm; reads very much like some modern poetry I've seen, only this seems to make a crazy sort of sense. Buck should have come sooner. I didn't give your bit of verse a chance to work on what passes for my "sense of fantasy;" I was in too big a hurry to get on with the Mailing. And of course, after reading your interpretation, there wasn't much chance of carrying through an independent integration. Besides, about the only time such stuff can work on me--but good--is just after I go to bed; 'tis on such food my insomnia feeds. (the insomnia seems to thrive on it, too!) But in any case, I would scarcely have followed the same path you did, and the pictures probably wouldn't have been so vivid. -- "Davis vs. Chauvenet" - looks like Davis will have to clinch to weather this round. BANSHEE #5 (A) I don't mind waiting a while for a fanzine like this, Larry; it is genuinely good from beginning to end. I especially liked "Raymeses" and Spencer's "The Metamorphosis of John Q. Spingtumper." The poll was interesting, although the obvious horse-play of the few largely negated any value it might otherwise have had. Speer's deductions were more interesting than the poll itself. "The Ruler Is No More," while well up to fan standards, was worthy of better handling. Raym has a knack for parody, but it took more than a knack to produce "Raymeses." "Raymeses" will stand several re-readings. Within its lines can be found an amazingly complete, satirical summary of the tempests-in-a-teapot which have made up the high points in recent fan history. If you can't find a reference to yourself, you just haven't been around much lately. This is Raym's best to date, and the best thing of its sort I've seen in FAPA. --Reviews-- look; three of them! Some guys are gonna object, but not me; I enjoyed 'em. THE NUCLEUS (B+) Trudy, the children of Hamden are very lucky; not only because they are going to have a teacher with ideas and ideals, but because they live in a town where these ideas and ideals will be given a chance of expression. I hope nothing stops you. Teaching of the type you hope to do is spreading, but only very slowly. There are a great [?] schools in which you wouldn't even be permitted to try out the newer methods you have been taught. The kind of school ofwhich I wrote is beginning to go, I'm glad to say; but it will be a long, long time before it is gone forever. The school in which special provisions are made for pupils of superior abilities may be inferior to the type of which you write, with proper stimuli are actually present; but it is still true that in the usual school class-room, the curriculum is suited to the gait of the dullards, and there is very little that the individual teacher can do about it. How would you like to teach in a school in which the policies were largely dictated by a school-board of opinionated local politicians, only one of whom had gotten beyond the fifth grade in school; a board which even attempted to get around the elementary requirements set up by the State and County? I had that pleasant experience, Trudy, and it wasn't good. And schools like that still exist, in many places. All sorts of fads and systems have flared up briefly, and finally ended by leaving a little of genuine worth, in the schools of this country during the past fifty years. The progressivism of which you write seems to a logical outcome of many of these abortive experiments of the past. I hope it continues to grow. Yes, the Reader's Digest is a bit conservative, Trudy; I always buy a copy of some other, rather radical Digest, along with it, as a sort of counter-irratant; works fine. -- Bravo for your comments on "Black andWhite" and on Unionism; no doubt you will get sneers from some directions, and the conservatives, if they wish, can find plenty of loop-holes in your arguments; you cover too much ground too brief a space to plug them all, even if you could; but in general, I think your remarks are sound. And like Spencer, I've a notion you've grown a lot.