Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Open Door? The approach of the tidal wave has also had an effect on publicly supported institutions. Those that are required by law or tradition to take in every taxpayer's child with a high-school diplo ma within their states have begun to wonder whether they can expand rapidly enough to maintain their open-door policy. Some have already answered...
...chance." To Headmaster Seymour St. John of Choate, mere "quickness of mind" may become far too important. "Is there not a hazard," he asks, "of neglecting by default other vital factors in a student's makeup?" Adds Admissions Director Robert Jackson of Oberlin: "You have to leave the door open for the Winston Churchills. It is said of him that on the basis of his school record, he wouldn't be admitted to any college today...
Jennie Bernstein, a bright-eyed Boston housewife, was in a dither as she popped through the neighbor's back door with little Lennie in her arms. She put him down on the living-room rug, and the two women stood back to watch. What they saw made musical history. With the teetery determination of a puppy bound for breakfast, little Lennie pattered out on all fours into the next room and over to the piano. Seizing a leg of it, he hauled himself erect and planted a pinkie firmly on the nearest key. As the note struck, an expression...
...Lennie was the life of a thousand parties. "I just ran for the piano," he recalls, "as soon as I got in the door, and stayed there until they threw me out. It was as though I didn't exist without music.'' He played anything and everything from Ravel to riverboat. at sight or from memory. He barreled through the local public library's scores of the great operas and croaked the male parts while his sister Shirley shrilled the upper registers? and mother and father sat and wondered helplessly what God had wrought...
...important common factor that the Americans and Israelis share, according to the letter, is "the worship of God and the inestimable gift of the Bible." Israel, like America, has established "a democratic equality of opportunity within a republican frame of government," it continued, and Israel, "in opening it's door to 800,000 immigrants from seventy-two countries in the past eight and a half years, has re-enacted America's early history...