Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eartha Kitt advanced her feline personality across the footlights," wrote a London critic, "offering songs full of menace and other unmentionable qualities and complaining I Wanna Be Evil, as if we did not know." Then, after the Royal Variety Performance, Eartha became a wide-eyed child in brief converse with Queen Elizabeth...
...most states when a man is accused by an unmarried woman of having fathered her child, the judge must play Solomon; with a jury, there may be as many as 13 Solomons. Kentucky is one of the states where blood-test evidence is admissible, but not binding, and in Chicago last week Dr. Malcolm L. Barnes, 47, told the American Society of Clinical Pathologists how well the system works in Jefferson County (Louisville and environs...
...from sweet reasonableness, and nothing could be more reasonable than the modest educational proposal that is the basis of a spoofing report from the 21st century by British Sociologist Michael Young. First premise of The Rise of the Meritocracy, 1870-2033, published in London, is merely this: every bright child, regardless of his parents' wealth or lack of it, should get the best education he is capable of absorbing. The proposition is hardly alarming, but by the book's end it has left a trail like a runaway milkwagon horse. Among the casualties: the British Labor Party (which...
...children, bright and dull, in the same comprehensive schools (this, very roughly, is what the Labor Party currently proposes). Clearly, this plan was too American, writes Young: "Americans, far from prizing brainpower, despised it . . . In the continent of the common man, they established common schools which recognized no child superior to another." Another kind of education was necessary for Britain; "Englishmen of the solid centre never believed in equality. They assumed that some men were better than others, and only waited to be told in what respect...
...intelligence tests had been developed that could spot a child's ability and bent at three. Children with IQs of 116 and up were sent to state-supported grammar schools; dullards were taught to read, write and play games at common schools. Uplifting leisure activities were planned for bright students, who "no longer need to spend any of their spare time with their families. Their homes have become simply hotels, to the great benefit of the children." Students, of course, received a "learning wage," were members of the B.U.G.S.A. (British Union of Grammar School Attenders...