Volume 7, Number 10 · December 15, 1966

Intellect and Non-Violence

By Alison Lurie

'And what did Uncle Robert give you?' we ask, as the children open their presents Christmas morning. 'A book? Oh, that's nice.' We mean it in all the dictionary definitions: not only 'amiable, kind'—it is also 'pleasing, agreeable,' and what's more, it is 'suitable, proper, refined.'



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