Word: alphabetization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great teachers? Maybe. But you should put more emphasis on the teachers at East Alphabet State, who work with a minimum of salaries, facilities and raw material to turn out the people who are the backbone of our country. On a clear day one may feel that the backbone has slipped a disc, and yet I sometimes have occasion to take a dim view even of our product...
...first problem was what to call the new agency. "War on Poverty" had to be dropped because it formed an acronym offensive to Italians; the pallid OEO was adopted instead. To avoid a recurrence of New Dealish alphabet-soup titles, programs were given catchy names rather than initials. VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) was an exception, and so was CAP (Community Action Program). At the local level, though, it was acronyms aweigh. Detroit opened TAP (Total Action Against Poverty). New York insisted on BEST (Basic Essential Skills Training) and QUEST (Queens Educational and Social Team). There was PROP (Portland...
...lyricists sing of "the Air Cav" (the 1st Cavalry Division turned Airmobile) and "pees" (South Vietnamese piasters worth roughly a penny); they abbreviate the helicopter gunships that support them to a curt A.R.A. ("aerial rocket artillery"). "Charlie" is the enemy, Victor Charlie being Viet Cong in the military phonetic alphabet. Top tunes in Viet Nam today...
Consistent Sounds. Sullivan's system requires children to spend their first eight weeks learning the alphabet from their teacher. But they are not taught all the sounds of all the letters. His "structural linguistics" approach keeps children from the confusing phonetic inconsistencies of the language (the 40 different sounds conveyed by the letter a, for example) until they grasp the fact that in general, letters correspond to sounds...
Pouring out of the computer at 600 words per minute, the justified tape is passed into three Photon machines. Controlled by the holes in the tape, light passes through a whirling glass disk on which the alphabet is printed; letters are automatically selected and words recorded on photographic paper...