, while maintaining
             an environment that is of interest to the child. This technique allows room for growth, in
             which the child will gradually build more knowledge upon the base of wisdom in which he
             has previously acquired. Thus, the child may grasp more elaborate concepts with time.
             The lack of this foundation--or idea of patriotism in this case--within the childhood
             developmental stages, does not allow those in the adolescent stage to make the complete
             transition into adulthood due to the fact that they are unable to understand more complex
             ideas. In this manner, Goodman is able to mark patriotism as the "new religion".
             Next, Goodman attracts the idea of censorship in America. He does this by first
             recalling the Russian protests against the banning of Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago and the
             spring theatre festival. The very framework of our country lies on the belief in freedom of
             speech, press, religion, and thought, yet, the major news source at that time, The New
             York Times, choose not to give any recognition to these patriotic deeds. News was again
             withheld from the American people with the secret nuclear testing and the withholding of
             a wavelength of a satellite for strategic reasons (Goodman, 1962). What does it say a
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