Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sorokin continued, however, to say that "If I had to choose any system in any country. American education would be my choice." The greatest defect, he added, was that the "American school system pays little attention to training of character," which manifests itself in low moral standards, especially is the government...
...also to people who owed him no allegiance but accepted to a greater or lesser extent English symbols of familial and behavioral propriety. His family life was quiet and unimpeachable, he was not addicted to the political and social excesses of his elder brother, and his serious speech defect brought him great public sympathy on the rare occasions of his broadcast speeches. But this would not differentiate him from any well-liked public figure, and to Englishmen he was far more than that. He holds a place in the English society roughly equivalent to that which the Bible, the Constitution...
...success in helping students out of immediate academic pitfalls, the Bureau's most unusual work is concentrated in the field of reading. With the aid of modern scientific devices, William G. Perry, Jr. '35, director of the Bureau, and Charles P. Whitlock, his assistant, try to correct the one defect which underlies many D's and E's--poor reading speed and comprehension. Each one gave a section in the reading class this fall, one at 8, the other at 5 in the afternoon...
...screenplay, itself, is oversimplified. Starting with Kennedy's blinding by a German sniper, it traces his hospitalization and rehabilitation. But all of his problems are assumed related to his physical defect. No mention is made of his civilian life, or the possibility that blindness might have compounded former problems. This kind of treatment might be effective for an educational film; it leaves a large gap in a supposed piece of cinematic...
...probability is that constitutional susceptibility is inherited and that the specific defect is brought about by stress," he commented...