Word: alphabets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creeping paralysis that immobilized him within two years. Inexplicably, it stopped before reaching his vital organs, but left him with the ability to move only his right thumb slightly. For Rosenzweig, that was enough. With his wife next to him, he would laboriously point out letters of the alphabet to spell words, eventually turning the words into essays, books, even bits of music criticism, which he did as a hobby. Still more incredibly, he found time to collaborate with Martin Buber in translating the Hebrew Bible into German-a translation hailed as the best since Martin Luther...
Since 1968, a four-letter alphabet has symbolized a loose moral order imposed by the American film industry on the moviemakers. The rating code is a self-defense mechanism designed to forestall Government interference. The letters Americans see affixed to their movies are really The Word according to Chairman Dougherty-Eugene ("Doc") Dougherty, 52, who has been snipping scenes since 1941 and now heads the Code and Rating Administration. Although Dougherty and the ten board members who serve with him have generally won the praise of exhibitors and the gratitude of parents, there has been increasingly vehement criticism that...
William Bennett's "The Afro-American Cultural Center" creates an alphabet for the discussion of models of the black center concept: thus facilitating the evaluation of the relative success or failure of the models in vivo. A synopsis based on research done in 1969 for the planners of the Harvard Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center, the article will be of aid in the reconstruction of black centers in the seventies...
...teaching of reading. Convinced that orthodox methods have misfired (more than one-third of public school pupils read below the minimum standard for their ages), reading teachers are also goaded by TV's remarkable series for preschoolers, Sesame Street, whose "graduates" now enter school knowing the alphabet and bored by many traditional reading exercises (TIME cover, Nov. 23). Twenty-five years ago, most schools used three "basal" reading programs of stories and workbooks; today there are 20, three introduced in the past year, each splintered into as many as 250 books, tests and assorted props...
...ease the confusions of English spelling, which uses different letters for similar sounds ("shoe" and "nation"), the "Initial Teaching Alphabet" adds 18 made-up letters to the regular 26 so that all sounds can be spelled identically. Example: "too bee, or not too bee: that is the kwestion." Children later switch to conventional spelling with little apparent strain. Still other systems concentrate on the 80% of English words that are phonetically regular. To teach letter sounds, they use goof-proof sentences like "I ran. The man ran. Dan ran." Despite the resemblance to deadly Dick and Jane, the authors claim...