Word: alphabetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time to leave for the San Francisco airport to catch an outgoing plane. On his trips to the AEC's Livermore lab, 45 miles from Berkeley, Teller dictates letters to his secretary while driving. It is no wonder that Teller has not found time to finish the atomic alphabet (see box) that he started writing for his two youngsters...
...other type of musical group worth mentioning packed their bags for tours to big cities and small towns. There was scarcely a well-known musician or musical group, American or European, that was not set to take off across the land. They could be ticked off right down the alphabet from A to Z (with the exception of X, since Greek Pianist Anna Xydis is not touring the U.S. this season): Contralto Marian Anderson, the Budapest String Quartet, Pianist Robert Casadesus, Soprano Lisa Delia Casa, Violinist Mischa Elman, Violinist Zino Francescatti, Pianist Emil Gilels, Pianist Clara Haskil, Pianist Eugene Istomin...
Into the Sandbox. The Freinet method was an outstanding flop. Pupils had to memorize whole words without any training in the alphabet, figure arithmetic problems without first handling numbers from one to nine. Any confused youngster was free to head for the playground. Shrugged one demoralized teacher: "Instead of struggling with their work, they jump into the sandbox...
...pulled out many things: crumbling papers with writing in Tibetan and the rare Lan Cha type of the Indie alphabet, raw silk, strips of colored cloth, a chain of silver emblems, a bronze mirror, a faded silken bag made up in the shape of a human stomach containing a bewildering collection of pieces of metal, woods, seeds and beads...
...novel the whole vast, vague Russian steppe slips from its habitual disorder into the anarchy of revolution. Trains do not arrive. Officers are suddenly bereft of rank, people of homes. Families lose touch. If the book sometimes reads like a primer, there is probably a good reason: the alphabet of this revolution is still being learned. Troyat has none of the exile's bitterness, but might well claim title to the words of one of his own refugee characters:"Where I am, there is Russia...