Current concern with reading and spelling reform steers away 
from visual to auditory stress.

*     It is interesting that today there is a growing unrest about 
our alphabetic dissociation of the senses. On page 49 there is 
a sample of a recent attempt at a new alphabet that would 
restore more phonic character to our script. The most notable 
thing about the sample is that it has the highly textural and 
tactile quality of an ancient manuscript page. In our desire to 
restore some unity of interplay among our senses we grope 
towards ancient manuscript forms which must be read aloud to 
be read at all. Side by side with this extreme development is 
that of the new institutes for speeded-up reading. There they 
are taught how to use the eye on the page so as to avoid all 
verbalization and all incipient movements of the throat which 
accompany our cinematic chase from left to right, in order to