Word: ans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To take the "lock step" out of U.S. schools and get every child moving at his own pace, the mighty Fund for the Advancement of Education has spent $12.3 million in the past two years. Last week Fund President Clarence H. Faust suggested that the job has just begun. In...
Yet this ideal, Faust believes, is becoming overlooked in the increasingly specializing U.S. Faust hopes that more public debate will help matters. "Perhaps we may even come to see that education should not be conceived of primarily as a means to an end, but as an end in itself, that...
In the beginning is matter. Matter is "atomic" in that it exhibits plurality, to the microscope, the telescope or the naked eye-"in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead." Matter also exhibits unity...
On the dark screen the words appear: "A G-String Enterprise." Called Pull My Daisy, the film is written and narrated by Jack Kerouac, the least dreary of the Beat writers. The cast is drawn from the highest level of Beat society; Poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky...
The dialogue awakened cafe scents of strong smoke, dry cognac and refracted thought ("Suppose you die and find out that the dead are only the living playing at being dead")And the story of an intellectual mamma's boy Communist up against a tough, cynical but gallant revolutionary was...