Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asked simply, "Whom would you prefer for your father, Johnson or Goldwater?" forty-two girls chose the President, while thirty favored his rival. Unlike the ancient Chinese, Cliffies apparently draw sharp distinction between familial and executive ability, since seventy-one of those polled supported Johnson for the Presidency. The other one didn't care...
Picking the right answer* to this question forces a student to recognize and choose among the idealized forms of ancient Greece, the saintly statues of medieval Christianity, the heroic proportions of a Michelangelo, the classical revival, and the textured boldness of contemporary art. No longer do multiple-choice tests offer nonsensical or mildly deceptive wrong answers, or reward fact fanciers with high scores. The best of the new multiple-choice exams test logic, not memory, and conceptual understanding rather than rote learning. And the exam's old reputation for superficiality is fading...
...mother, the wife, can supply it for the home. To be a housewife is not easy. Ours is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalog. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed...
...generations on end, the Greeks have gone into shipping as their natural calling, reassured by an ancient Hellenic proverb that the sea never freezes. Stavros Spyros Niarchos, 55, a trim, dapper Greek and a former brother-in-law of Magnate Aristotle Socrates Onassis, has carried on the tradition with flair and fabulous success, now owns a fleet of 74 tankers and freighters whose stacks bear the white "N" known in every port. But Niarchos, who became the world's largest independent shipowner, is ready to change course. Last week the word was out that his whole fleet...
...represent that ancient enemy of all communities: the stranger. By 'being offensive' I mean that I travel, therefore I offend." says British Critic V. S. Pritchett in his introduction to this elegantly tailored travel piece. But his offensive eye is piercing. In Madrid, the light has "the radiance of enamel: in the hot months it is pure fire, refined to the incandescence of a furnace, and it is like the gleam of armour in the cold winter." He is fascinated by the Turks' capacity for almost trancelike relaxation. "No one," he says, "sits quite so relaxedlly, expertly...