Hernando Cartes, Spanish conquistadores invaded Mexico in 1519. Cortes and his men, mostly of humble origin, preached Chris-tianity, hunted for gold, and con-verted or killed the natives. The Aztec civilization succumbed in less than a decade, the crucial blow corn-ing when Cortes, with a force of 900 men, captured Tenochtitlan in 1521.
Bernal Diaz del Castillo (1498- 1593) was a foot soldier who rose to serve as an aide to Cortes and later became a government official in New Spain. In True History...
Hugh Trevor-Roper, in The Triu?EPhant American Scholar (Winter 1978/79), 181 1 Q St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.
Saint Thomas More (1478-1535) has never been so venerated: Henry VIII and his counselor Thomas Cromwell are damned for beheading him; Yale has undertaken a "More project" to reissue his complete writings (his collected works have been unpublished since the mid-16th century); and a famous play and award-winning film lionize him as "A Man For All Seasons."
But it...
Richard W. Smith, in Change School TV (Dee.-Jan. 1978/79), NEW Tower, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10801.
Educational television was launched with great expectations 25 years ago, prompted in part a shortage of grade school and college level teachers. Today, both closed-circuit TV in the classroom and instruc- tional TV intended for home audiences have yet to catch hold.
Its supporters contend that the new technology was sabotaged by teachers' unions in the grade schools and by the intellectual snobbery...
Hans Linde, in
The Center Magazine (Jan.-Feb. 19791, Box
4068, Santa ~arbara, Calif. 93103.
The continuing conflict between the courts and the news media is often said to result from two conflicting constitutional rights-the First Amendment right of the press to be free to publish without censorship and to protect its news sources and the Sixth Amendment right of an accused person to a fair trial.
This is a fallacy; these two constitutional rights are not in conflict at all, argues Oregon...
Hans Linde, in
The Center Magazine (Jan.-Feb. 19791, Box
4068, Santa ~arbara, Calif. 93103.
The continuing conflict between the courts and the news media is often said to result from two conflicting constitutional rights-the First Amendment right of the press to be free to publish without censorship and to protect its news sources and the Sixth Amendment right of an accused person to a fair trial.
This is a fallacy; these two constitutional rights are not in conflict at all, argues Oregon...
IODICALS
PRESS & TELEVISION
have compromised press independence; however, government aid has
not improved the circulation of weaker newspapers.
In West Germany, where the government of Chancellor Helmut
Schmidt has been debating press subsidy plans, conservative pub-
lishers (including Axel Springer, who owns Die Welt and many other
papers and controls 25 percent of the country's daily newspaper circu-
lation) have opposed direct government aid in favor of tax concessions
and an opportunity f...
? Or do they use the CB radios in-
stalled in their trucks and autos merely to warn each other of police
speed traps?
Distinguishing between the fanatical devotee and the casual user, sociologists Kerbo, of California Polytechnic State University, and Hol- ley, of Southwestern Oklahoma State University, and Marshall, a psy- chologist at the Carl Albert Mental Health Center, McAlester, Okla., studied CB enthusiasts through questionnaires, interviews, and obser- vation at "CB breakers,"...
? Or do they use the CB radios in-
stalled in their trucks and autos merely to warn each other of police
speed traps?
Distinguishing between the fanatical devotee and the casual user, sociologists Kerbo, of California Polytechnic State University, and Hol- ley, of Southwestern Oklahoma State University, and Marshall, a psy- chologist at the Carl Albert Mental Health Center, McAlester, Okla., studied CB enthusiasts through questionnaires, interviews, and obser- vation at "CB breakers,"...
Charles F. Westoff, in Sci-Growth eutific ~merican (Dec. 1978),41 5 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017.
Most of the world's developed countries are now approaching zero population growth, and, if present trends continue, the populations of Europe and Russia will begin to decline at the turn of the century. The population of the United States will stop growing at a total of about 253 million in the year 2015.
The drop in population growth, says Westoff, director of population research at Princeton,...
Charles F. Westoff, in Sci-Growth eutific ~merican (Dec. 1978),41 5 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017.
Most of the world's developed countries are now approaching zero population growth, and, if present trends continue, the populations of Europe and Russia will begin to decline at the turn of the century. The population of the United States will stop growing at a total of about 253 million in the year 2015.
The drop in population growth, says Westoff, director of population research at Princeton,...