Word: feare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blend of yang and yin. Those intertwined opposites-good and evil, sweet and sour, light and dark-describe not only Chinese philosophy but also the inner contradictions of a district whose neon signs and tourist bustle mask a swarming, sweatshop world of long hours, low pay, hard work and fear. For all its outward ambiance, the largest Chinese enclave outside Asia is one of America's most wretched slums...
...tell-'em-and-test-'em" process, Holt claims, not only induces fear and discourages experimentation but leads to a concentration on answers rather than problems-and it is "dishonest and the students know it." Teachers coach the kids for the tests and care more about "the appearance" of knowledge than for real understanding. "What would happen," Holt asks, "at Harvard or Yale if a prof gave a surprise test in March on work covered in October? Everyone knows what would happen; that's why they don't do it." In this "temple of worship for right...
Despite all such talk, little real advance has been made on such basic doctrinal differences as baptism, mixed marriage or the Eucharist. Still, says Dr. Blake, "the important thing is that both sides have gotten over the fear of discussing the issue of formal ties with the Vatican...
...tragicomedienne most often likened to Sandy, Judy Holliday, who had just died of cancer. One dissonant note: Sandy is tone-deaf, ignorant of jazz, and the only records she owned were in a different groove-Andy Williams. Says Mulligan: "She's a kid who had a fear of music laid on her as a child. She's just now learning to relax...
...fare. Sandy plays the suicidal widow of a movie star; her co-star plays a man who has just run over his son in a driveway accident. But Sandy, chewing over and blowing her lines at rehearsals, is so hyped up about the Boston opening Sept. 4 that some fear she may blow all the fuses. "Marty," she asked Manager Martin Bregman at one desperate juncture last week, "how much do we lose if we quit...