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Word: availables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kozol also contends that the students in these schools are often fed "a diet of banality and irrelevance which it is not worth the while of a child to learn or that of a teacher to teach." Of 32 different book series he had avail able in his classroom, the majority were more than ten years old. Creative children had to conform to the rigid thinking of teachers or face ridicule. He cites one gentle but emotionally disturbed boy who "drew lovely lyrical cows and pleasant horses lifting up their hooves to rub their noses" but only succeeded in throwing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: Instant Expert | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...something of a latterday Robin Hood, robbing only banks that were foreclosing on poor farmers and eventually turning into a kind of folk hero. But Faye Dunaway's Sunday-social prettiness is at variance with any known information about Bonnie Parker. The other gang members struggle to little avail against a script that gives their characters no discernible shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Low-Down Hoedown | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...stimulated to produce more melanin-and a suntan. The black races (Negro, Bushman-Hottentot and Australoid), with a more abundant supply of melanin, are in effect, perpetually tanned. Members of the white race are transparent-skinned in winter, when they must make the most of the limited ultraviolet avail able to synthesize vitamin D, but they take a tan in summer, when they might suffer from an excess. There are other bits of confirmatory evidence: the only relatively dark-skinned people in high latitudes are the Eskimos, who get all the vitamin D they need from fish-liver oils. Until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biochemistry: Vitamin D & the Races of Man | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...dressssed, ve are goink for a drive," is German for sinister. Director Sidney Furie confuses tension and pretension, hokes up the story with odd-angle camera shots-of a man bicycling alone across a huge airstrip, a confrontation with the enemy in an echoing, empty marble mansion. To no avail. As in many another amateurish spy film, Sinatra and company have forgotten to look for the enemy within-a soggy scenario that gummed up the caper from the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: War Games | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

Anouilh's Antigone is one of the most profound discussions of this crucial matter ever penned. I urge you to avail yourself of this transcendent play in its current transcendent production

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: III | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

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