Word: alphabetization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mimi, effectively played by the star Elaine Stritch, is surrounded by a bevy of brats. She's the social director, also in charge of civilizing the passenger's children. One delightful incorrigible, Alvin Lush, will not succumb. As they play and sing through an alphabet song, little Alvin changes the "s" in shore to "w," and, when the children form Mimi's name, old Alvin comes along and turns the "w's" upside down. A hot sketch that Alvin...
...news from Paris last week, as French high-fashion designers called the coming season's styles, was shape. Last winter's flapper rage, the short, unfitted boop-a-doop look, had been inaugurated by Dior's A-shape; this year the alphabet has yielded a softer, swirlier letter as a theme-S. At the end of a week studded with the usual fashion-show crises (Red Cross ambulances stood by for crush victims, models fainted as Zippers caught, Designer Michel Goma was rushed to the hospital with appendicitis), the trend was clear: this year's styles...
While two fashion greats, Balenciaga and Givenchy, are still to be heard from, there is little even they can do to temper the new S-shape. But when the conventional alphabet is exhausted, tomorrow's woman may very well look like a la mode...
...read. Britain is worried that 30% of its seven-year-olds still cannot read after two years of school; one-quarter of its 15-year-olds are semiliterate; and 5% cannot read at all. On the theory that one facet of the problem is the exception-ridden English alphabet, 1,000 first-graders in 24 schools next fall will tackle reading with a strictly phonetic alphabet. If successful, it may revolutionize ingish...
Invented by a seven-man committee, including Conservative M. P. Isaac James Pitman (grandson of shorthand's Sir Isaac Pitman), the all-lower-case new alphabet is longer than the old one. While eliminating q and x, it retains all other conventional letters and adds 19 new sound symbols (e.g., ae in the first line of the sample above). In theory, this reduces some 2,000 letter sounds in the regular alphabet to a piano-sized 88. Using the new system, a few retarded readers have already been rapidly cured. But the obvious problem is what happens later, when...