Word: bluntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Howard Fehr, head of the mathematics department at Columbia Teachers College, is generally an amiable man. but he can become blunt when talking about the abuse his subject takes in the average U.S. school. "The mathematical education of most math teachers," says he, "ends in the ninth grade.'' They teach arithmetic as if it involved nothing more than totting up grocery bills or figuring compound interest, completely fail to give their pupils any glimpse into the concepts that lie behind the subject. Last year Fehr took on the job of collaborating with TV Producer Richard Pack...
...call their own. The byways were apt to be dignified with mysterious road signs: Boon, Creation, Fluxus, Rite, House of Venus I. James Ernst coyly offered a Painting with a Secret Title, which resembled a tangle of TV antennas. Such literary hints and gestures were a change from the blunt titles of abstractions in the last few Whitney annuals, which gave merely a number or a date. Possibly more abstract expressionists were beginning to think in terms of meanings, whether or not they painted meaningful pictures...
Three days later the Washington Post and Times Herald was quick to fire the customary salute: "It takes moral and political courage of a high order to talk in these blunt, realistic terms to people who have been nurtured on the pap of white supremacy." But matched against performance, LeRoy Collins' words were wearing thin. Unlike four other "Confederate" states, i.e., North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Arkansas, Florida still has no Negro children in white schools. Collins has proposed no plans to admit them, gradually or otherwise. And, under Collins-approved legislation, Florida schools can be closed down...
...Washington and in the wards, Republicans last week faced up to a blunt fact of political life. The tide that began in 1954 when Democrats took control of both houses of Congress, that carried Democrats into new governors' mansions and state assemblies, that washed Democrat William Proxmire into Joe McCarthy's Wisconsin Senate seat last summer, still is rolling strong. Last week, in a series of state and municipal elections along the East Coast, the Democrats were the big winners again...
...finally convinced them his business was urgent. Athletic, 37-year-old Felix Gaillard (TIME, Sept. 23), Minister of Finance in the outgoing government of 43-year-old Caretaker Premier Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, hopped out of bed. shaved, dressed and rushed to Coty. Shortly after 5 a.m. the blunt, fatherly President told Gaillard: form a government, and quickly...