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A typical E.C.E. class, a descendant of the British "open-school" concept, replaces a front-and-center teacher and rows of students' desks with scattered work areas, each devoted to a different subject. Lessons in reading, math and, say, art may thus take place simultaneously. Teachers have found the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Easy as E.C.E. | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

- Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln had four children, only one of whom, Robert, had any children. In turn, only one of those three children, Jessie, had a child, and that sole offspring, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, has only one child, Timothy, now seven, who is therefore Abe Lincoln's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Briefs | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

Phonetic Retard. While still as elegant as it was before, My Fair Lady has changed in texture because of its principals. Harrison's brittle disdain matched Bernard Shaw's glacial unconcern for people as people. Ian Richardson, on the other hand, is too humane to treat Eliza as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Loverly | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

Shortly after her divorce, Nina Vidal married Hugh D. Auchincloss, a wealthy broker and the squire of Merrywood, a handsome Virginia estate. Despite the trauma that this union occasioned, it gave Vidal two tenuous family connections that were to affect his career: Auchincloss's mother was Emma Brewster Jennings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GORE VIDAL: Laughing Cassandra | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

PASSAGE TO ARARAT by Michael J. Arlen. The tribes of the Bible leap from the page, the victims of mass murder speak out in this intensely personal history of Armenia by a gifted descendant.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: The Year's Best | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

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