Word: cational
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Planned Blessings. China's future depends largely upon the pillars of the party: the army and the students. From all three must come the skills and dedi cation needed to deal with the staggering problems posed by overpopulation and underproduction. At the top of the pyramid is Chairman Mao Tse-tung, whom the party acknowledges to be omnipotent and incapable of mistakes. The people are endlessly told that Mao is the sun, the lodestar, the living Buddha, and he is said to be far greater "than the empty, hypocritical and negative Jesus Christ." Peasants are taught to sing...
More than any other nation, the U.S. has made local control the key fact of its school system. The result is what James B. Conant calls a "Noah's Ark" of edu cation - a happy confusion of 35,300 in dependent school systems, in which stand ards vary so widely that an A grade in one school may be worth a D in another...
...forces that influence school boards include regional accrediting agencies, teach ers colleges, textbook publishers and the National Education Association. Specific regulations accompany present federal aid, such as those long set for vocational edu cation under the Smith-Hughes Act. The great foundations pour millions into educational TV and radical school designs, prodding schools to improve. Even that stout defender of local control, James...
...having a harder time than usual in declaring their choices in 1960. Nixon inevitably won the most editorial support, though Kennedy was doing better than Adlai Stevenson in 1956. One remarkable phenomenon, on either side, was the qualified enthusiasm. Papers that chose Nixon often did so out of dedi cation to conservative domestic policies more than to any heartwarming tributes to Nixon himself. Kennedy enthusiasts were just as apt to temper their praise with good words for Nixon's policies and his experience. A sampling...
Where Honey falls short is where its method falls short-in a lack of intensifi cation and fusion. The play is episodic, without all the episodes being equally good; it is for the most part closeups, without all the characters being equally real (the mother is not always seen in focus and is played by Angela Lansbury too much for farce). But if there is a want of art to A Taste of Honey, there is equally a want of contrivance, and Joan Plowright's brilliant portrayal of the girl raises the play at its best from gifted...