Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moore's fine collection of primitive sculpture to show that it is the place of an unconventional family. He also has the satisfaction of knowing that his own breakthrough has opened the way to public acceptance for a whole generation of radical young British sculptors, topped by such bright new talents as Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, although they follow conceptions far different from Moore's own. Says a London art dealer: "It is not a Renaissance in British sculpture. It's a naissance, because before Moore there was almost none...
...this reasoning, all men working at full throttle are "gifted." In a status-conscious nation, the idea is sometimes hard to get across. Conant's transmitter: the "comprehensive" high school, a social melting pot throwing rich and poor, dull and bright together. In ideal form, thinks Conant, it should give every kind of student as good an education as he might get in a school designed just...
Green Light. One of Conant's most potent prescriptions was the "academic inventory." a yearly comparison between bright students' capacities and the elective courses they actually choose. Like a stockholder's report, it sums up a school's income and outgo. And it goes straight to the heart of the matter: guidance...
...foolish questions. the guidance man strikes some parents as a dangerous bore: George will go to Harvard no matter his score. Let George do it-if he can. Guidance counselors are after bigger game: the brainy boy from a culture-poor family who always thought he was "dumb," the bright laggard who needs to be prodded. To Conant. guidance is "the keystone of the arch of public education...
Died. Kay Kendall, 33, bright, beautiful, promising screen comedienne (Genevieve, Les Girls), third wife (since 1957) of Actor Rex (My Fair Lady) Harrison; after a long battle, kept secret from their friends, against leukemia; in London...