Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eventually may find its way West. The opera's plot concerns the trials of a Slovakian peasant girl named Katrena whose lover is found murdered in a forest clearing. At first suspected, Katrena is later cleared and promptly marries an earlier suitor named Ondrej. When she bears a child ahead of schedule, Ondrej flies into a jealous rage, reveals in a drunken soliloquy that he is the murderer, later confesses publicly. Katrena retires with her bastard child to live with old Stelina, father of her lover, and the chorus, as commentator on the action, concludes that "life sings...
...Francisco. The Teachers Association of San Francisco, oldest and boldest of the city's four teacher organizations, launched a bristling attack upon some other targets. Among them: ¶ Automatic promotion : "The elementary teachers are told that a child must not fail nor be held back because he will be 'unhappy.' But will he be happy when he reaches the upper grades and finds himself still unable to read effectively?" ¶ The dogma that the school is responsible for the "whole" child: "As long as instruction for social living takes precedence over those subjects which are designed...
...Chicago. At a meeting of 700 professors and presidents of U.S. teachers colleges, Paul Woodring (Let's Talk Sense About Our Schools) warned that a whole new mood has settled over the country. Once, said he, "we wanted every child to be happy and contented and to have a feeling of success. We thought this could best be assured by de-emphasizing standards, competition and grades, by broadening the curriculum and by eliminating the distinction between curricular and extracurricular activities . . . Today the mood of the people has changed. There is a new stress on values and standards, on hard...
...Little Iodine, its characters are disingenuous and uncute. Charlie, whose peanut-bald head is surmounted by a single dispirited curl, is a junior-grade Walter Mitty, whose highflying dreams of popularity crash in endless ignominies. Charlie's characteristic lament: "Good grief!" The chief scorpion in his child's garden of reverses is a promising young termagant named Lucy, who, with apprentice-shrews Violet and Patty, sharpens her talons on Charlie's ego. "Good Ol' Charlie Brown," purrs Violet as Charlie passes. "Nobody hates him, everybody likes him . . . What a wishy-washy character...
...Born in the lovely Moluccas, she leads a little-girl existence that is bounded by her mother's plantation wealth, the easygoing indifference of an indulgent father, the dark, lush presence of jungle, and the wonderful attentions of an old grandmother whose respect for native superstitions colors the child's impressions. Her parents take her off to Europe after a senseless family quarrel with the old lady. She marries a charming, worthless fellow who leaves her, and she comes back to the island, as the old grandmother knew she would, with her infant...