Word: chores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than 100 students. But correcting 100 themes at ten minutes each takes 17 hours of work-2½ hours seven nights a week. Chicago would need 330 more teachers, adding $2,300.000 to the budget. Solution: hiring part-time "lay readers." college-trained housewives who can take over the chore at 25? a theme. The idea is being used in 16 cities. ¶ Across the country, arithmetic is being switched from rote learning and the "social utility" approach, which make the subject either inscrutable or silly. The new idea is to fascinate children with mathematical concepts and analysis so they...
...parents. He is fortunate to have as the children plaintive, pony-tailed Carol Lynley, 17. and blond, handsome 17-year-old Brandon de Wilde, who has acquired longer legs and a deeper voice since he played the small boy in Shane. Both are quietly affecting in the difficult acting chore of seeming ineffectual...
DYLAN THOMAS READING "A VISIT TO AMERICA" AND POEMS (Caedmon). The persistent bestseller among the pressed poets introduces his fourth posthumous album by biting the fans that fed him, with an assault on the "culture vultures" who lie in wait for traveling English poets. That chore out of the way, he sets to reading Walter de la Mare, W. H. Auden, Thomas Hardy in the familiar, tumult-ringing style that makes every poet who ever lived sound like Dylan Thomas...
Speaking at all-white Florida State University, Author Philip (Generation of Vipers) Wylie, 57, typically detoured from his academic chore (presenting two Wylie awards to future librarians), wished for a darker Dixie-to-come: "I hope that in a third of a century not only will we be integrated and almost all racism will be a historic fact we read about in old books, but I hope we'll be a lot further along toward all becoming tea-colored...
...rooms Technician Cecil W. Kelley, 38, was working alone last week, adding a solvent to a 225-gal. tank. It was a routine part of a process to recover plutonium from waste materials. During his ten years at Los Alamos he had done the same chore about 75 times. This time was different. When he turned on the stirring apparatus, a bright blue flash bloomed out of the tank...