Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PERSONALITY: Brown-haired, blue-eyed, meditative, Burney is married (two children), likes to read American history, plays golf in the mid-80s, enjoys swimming with his family at the pool of their apartment 'house in Alexandria, Va. An active joiner of medical organizations, he enjoys working with Boy Scout groups, helps them in health and safety work...
...remains what he has always been-a brilliant, courtly, unruffable scholar whose whole life seems to be his work. Few besides his most intimate friends have met his wife, the former Mariana Lowell of Boston, or been inside his book-filled apartment in Manhattan's East 80s, or met his nine-year-old daughter Isabel, or two sons, James 16, and Roger 14. A prodigious reader and prolific writer, Barzun has seen fit to arrange his routine with an almost classic precision. But this is something of a paradox, for Barzun's chief interest as a cultural historian...
From the time he took in the New York skyline in 1952, Tambi thought of erecting an intercontinental "skyscraper of poetry." Poetry London-New York slowly took shape in the fusty, rambling apartment in Manhattan's far East 80s that Tambi shares with his pretty, Bombay-born wife, Sana Tyabjee. The first issue hit the bookstalls last month, at a cost of about $6,000, and an unsolicited angel, Dwight Ripley, "an American painter educated at Harrow," made up the bulk of the deficit. Tambi pays his contributors "according to need" at a top rate of $1.25 a line...
...bitter and recurring debate in U.S. history concerns the money supply. In the 1870s and '80s national elections were fought on the issue of tight v. easy money; new parties-the Populists, the Green-backers-sprang up whose primary function was to argue for a looser money supply. William Jennings Bryan, Boy Orator of the Platte, won his reputation and the Democratic presidential nomination in 1896 with a plea for easier money...
...80s, educators began applying the now obvious notion that one good way to teach a child to read was first to snag his interest. They produced readers related to a child's own experiences, and in the 20th century, they started to control the number of words to be introduced. They argued about the merits of oral and silent reading; they also began to champion the idea of teaching a pupil to recognize words as wholes. Gradually, word-recognition became the vogue. "There's no doubt about it," says Elementary School Superintendent Oscar M. Chute of Evanston...