Word: eliza
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...wisdom of assigning children to classes according to presumed ability, which may only mire the lowest groups into self-confining ruts. If children tend to become the kind of students their teachers expect them to be, the obvious need is to raise the teachers' sights. Or, as Eliza Doolittle says in Shaw's Pygmalion, "The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated...
Each year the bloodhounds-mostly hard-breathing Republicans and South ern Democrats-nip closer, but each year Eliza stays an inch or two ahead...
...legislative career of the war on poverty seems less like a series of congressional debates than an annual re-enactment of Eliza crossing...
...measure, 50 Democrats and 79 Republicans against it. Though Republicans did hold funding to $1.6 billion, the chances are good that when the program emerges from conference with the Senate, which gave it $2.2 billion, it will have more money than it has ever had. It was as if Eliza had turned around and bitten the bloodhounds...
...feet bloodied, her hair blowing, Eliza jumped from ice floe to ice floe, not stopping until, "as in a dream," she had left Kentucky behind and found herself safe on the Ohio side of the Ohio River. Contrary to the myth ic and dramatic versions of folklore, Harriet Beecher Stowe's heroine was not actually pur sued by bloodhounds...