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...Mexican mesteño, a general term for anything that looks more like a horse than a cow. The animal the word describes was principally descended from the fiery Arabs imported to the New World by Cortes and his conquistadors, and the rigors of the prairies notably improved the breed. The mustangs of 1850 were short (14-15 hands), hardy and fast: the stronger stallions kept manadas of 20 or 30 mares, and to defend the mares from randy rivals they fought frightful battles to the death...
Insurance-conscious U.S. architects object that boards, bricks and nails are dangerous playthings. On the contrary, says Lady Allen, accidents are less frequent in her playgrounds than in conventional asphalt lots, probably because immovable playthings "bore children and breed a sort of mass hysteria." Anyway, she adds, "it is better to risk a broken leg than a broken spirit. A leg can always mend. A spirit...
...Fall before they begin teaching the new teaching fellows attend a four-day orientation program, which includes demonstration classes, films on language and language teaching, explanations of how to cope with some of the special problems of Harvard's 'special breed" of students, and advice from observers of the previous year's teaching fellows, Bolinger said. This was the first year such an orientation program was adopted, and it was so successful that it will be continued, he added, with Kathleen O. Elliott, Dean of Radcliffe College, as the guest speaker...
...many Supreme Court decisions breed more confusion than clarification? Because the court, unlike a legislature, is charged with laying down broad principles based on the narrow facts of particular cases. And as Mr. Justice Holmes put it, "Hard cases make bad law." Last week they made confusing law in the court's flurry of reapportionment decisions (see THE NATION), and in its silent refusal to review a crucial California case involving the inadmissibility of voluntary confessions-currently the most confusing issue in U.S. criminal...
...Breed. What the U.S. has today is a "new breed" of Jew "who is proud of his Jewishness even when he is vague in his knowledge and definition of what Judaism means to him" -the man who buys Saul Bellow's Herzog and "wants his children to know more about his tradition." The American Jew, said Kelman, has largely abandoned fundamentalism for ecumenism; while he wants more rabbis and religious schools, he also has "reverence for the integrity of those who hold different beliefs and he does not look on those who differ from him as wicked or deficient...