Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a right to take a strong interest in the way in which they are being run. The belief in equality of and for all held so strongly by so many in the United States, increases the interest of parents in schools: "I know as much about my child's needs as you do; I have a right to supervise the education you are giving him." The school no longer holds for the parent the respect that it did in the last century, and the school can no longer afford to keep aloof from the community...
...greatest incentives for educators has always been the opportunity to shape the world through its future leaders and citizens. But education also carries with it a responsibility to prepare a child to live in and accept, to some extent, the world as he finds it. The secondary boarding school is a potential utopia as well as a vital part of our formal educational system. These two aspects are at times opposed to one another...
...feats as shooting a bow while standing on a bare-backed horse. A dancing piper with an exaggerated phallus indicates the celebration of orgiastic rites; farmers arrive with lambs for sacrifice and bearing bowls of barley meal for offerings. Most moving of all is a pre-Christian madonna and child, probably yet another appearance of the fertility and mother goddess who held sway throughout the Mediterranean...
Such praise makes Horiuchi's eyes brim with gratitude. His early years were difficult and lonely. Trained as a child in Japan in brush and sumi, he came to the U.S. with his family at 15 and settled in Rock Springs, Wyo., where he got a job on the Union Pacific and learned western technique from a visiting WPA art instructor. Two months after Pearl Harbor he was fired, ordered to quit his company house within 24 hours. He burned all the possessions he could not pack into his jalopy and trailer, took to the road with his wife...
Born. To Tenor Dennis Day (real name: Eugene Denis McNulty), 41, and Peggy Almquist McNulty, 34: their fifth son, seventh child; in Los Angeles. Name: Thomas Francis. Weight...