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Horizons, v. 7, issue 4, whole 27, June 1946

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atomic bomb, published in recent weeks, though it's hardly a subject for levity. Maybe the paradox is connected with the way satires strike home most effectively when aimed at something really worth while. [underlined] Sustaining Program: As usual, I fail to catch on to the front cover. Speer's proposed curriculum seems generally satisfactory, and in line with my own ideas, though I can't agree with his belief that the English literature course should stick to writings of historical importance--the stuff suggested would be even more stuffy to a high school student that the contents of most of the literature books now in use. I'm inclined to think that virtually all the literature studied in grade and high school ought to be contemporary, with a detailed investigation of the classics reserved for those who are going on to college, or would like to take it as an extra elective course. Check and double check on the three or four degrees of detailedness in the teaching of history. [underlined] Fanorama: I was simply objecting to publishing the London Times book reviews because they said very little: reprinting a detailed dissertation on a fantasy work, or the anecdotes that Liebscher occasionally culls from American newspapers is something else again. Another thing for which allowance should be made when counting up activity requirements, though--if, for instance, Dunk weren't to show any activity in the FAPA during 12 months, he should hardly be credited for the dozens of pages of his writings in the last Full Length Articles. [underlined] Reader and Collectors: The Butman essay still does not impress me too favorably. As one man's ideas on certain phases of fantasy, it's all right; as anything approaching a definitive or even partial study of the subject, it's hopelessly obsessed with a couple of theories and an obviously shallow acquaintance with the field.

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atomic bomb, published in recent weeks, though it's hardly a subject for levity. Maybe the paradox is connected with the way satires strike home most effectively when aimed at something really worth while. [underlined] Sustaining Program: As usual, I fail to catch on to the front cover. Speer's proposed curriculum seems generally satisfactory, and in line with my own ideas, though I can't agree with his belief that the English literature course should stick to writings of historical importance--the stuff suggested would be even more stuffy to a high school student that the contents of most of the literature books now in use. I'm inclined to think that virtually all the literature studied in grade and high school ought to be contemporary, with a detailed investigation of the classics reserved for those who are going on to college, or would like to take it as an extra elective course. Check and double check on the three or four degrees of detailedness in the teaching of history. [underlined] Fanorama: I was simply objecting to publishing the London Times book reviews because they said very little: reprinting a detailed dissertation on a fantasy work, or the anecdotes that Liebscher occasionally culls from American newspapers is something else again. Another thing for which allowance should be made when counting up activity requirements, though--if, for instance, Dunk weren't to show any activity in the FAPA during 12 months, he should hardly be credited for the dozens of pages of his writings in the last Full Length Articles. [underlined] Reader and Collectors: The Butman essay still does not impress me too favorably. As one man's ideas on certain phases of fantasy, it's all right; as anything approaching a definitive or even partial study of the subject, it's hopelessly obsessed with a couple of theories and an obviously shallow acquaintance with the field.