Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bits of martial brouhaha and on Richard II for the pervasive vegetable metaphor that crops up in MacBird's first press conference ("This land will be a garden carefully pruned; / We'll lop off any branch that looks too tall / That seems to grow too lofty or too fast") and in the spectacle of a mad Lady MacBird sweetening the land with bouquets and aerosol deodorant. To assert that MacBird rapes the old Swan with no intelligence and no compassion is evidently to miss the point, for Miss Garson makes no claims for her idiom or for her pentameters...
...educator asked to remain anonymous, but his opinion was far from revolutionary. In recent years growing numbers of educators and academics have concluded that core-city school systems across the country are failures. Seeking new answers to city school problems, they have started a "dialogue" which is fast growing to a near unanimous roar for decentralizing urban schools...
Isolating education from the community is also inefficient. Vocational schools can never replace their machinery as fast as it becomes outdated, but local trades can offer the most advanced machinery for student training. All that is needed is co-operation between community business and local education...
Reformers believe that decentralization, by including communities in policy-making, can force a new bond between the communities and schools. But in their efforts to restructure school systems, they are grappling with all the problems of the postwar ghettoes, and they are fast finding that there are no simple answers...
...much for science. Texas Southern's Jim Hines, 20, is not the least bit pigeon-toed-in fact, he's just a little duck-footed, and it may be a good thing. If he were 100% efficient, there is no telling how fast he could run. Three times last winter Hines tied the indoor world record of 5.9 sec. in the 60-yd. dash. Last month, in the 100-yd. dash at Houston's Southwestern Athletic Conference meet, he got off to a so-so start, still was timed in 9.1 sec.-equaling the world record...