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This year, in addition to TIME'S social studies program, the Education Department is providing a new English Program, based not only on TIME'S news reporting but on its criticism and Essays. Also in preparation for the new school term is a comprehensive teacher's guide to the civil rights movement in the U.S., a detailed study map of Eastern Europe and a guide chart to pivotal U.S. elections in the 20th century. Inquiries should be sent to Time Education Program, P.O. Box 870, Radio City Station, New York...
...Revolution: 1789-99, Nietzsche), proved him a master in his field; after a long illness; in Cambridge, Mass. One of the most popular of contemporary historians, Brinton was also one of the most perceptive. In The Anatomy of Revolution (1938), a study of four major upheavals, from the English rebellion of 1640 to the Russian Revolution of 1917, he spelled out his now-familiar theory that revolutions stem from hope not despair, from the promises of progress rather than from continuous oppression...
After graduating from Ascension (with bow tie firmly in place), McLain went on to Mt. Carmel High, Chicago's "Little Notre Dame." Father Ben Hogan, a former English teacher at Mt. Carmel, remembers Denny well: "He had a lot of trouble keeping his mouth shut." And he was no whiz in the classroom, although he managed to maintain a C average. Denny insists that he was really better than that. "I went to school like I pitch," he says. "I am as good as I want to be. I could study 20 minutes and pass a test. Or I could...
...HECKLE: Essentially evolved from the Midd'e English word hekele (to comb flax or to tease or ruffle hemp). An 1808 Scottish dictionary added the second definition of heckle as "to tease with questions...
...HUSTINGS: Derived from Old English for the place from which parliamentary candidates addressed the electorate, but originating in the Old Norse husthing, which translates literally as "house meeting...