Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ironically, the area least affected by the strike is Rhody McCoy's eight-school Ocean Hill-Brownsville district. Recruit ed during the summer from all parts of the country, McCoy's temporary teachers form one of the brainiest public school staffs in the country. Eager, dedicated and inventive, with a heavy emphasis on the Ivy League-"I'm a bum," quips one principal, "but all my teachers wear Brooks Brothers suits"-they come early and stay late, refusing to bow to the stale pedagogic commands that emanate from 110 Livingston Street, the Board of Education...
Plugging people in is the goal of modern planners and urban thinkers, just as building grand boulevards and sweeping plazas was the dream a century ago. Most urban thinkers envisage a graduated form of government. A large, regional body would do such things as policing the environment, building expressways, and providing police. Smaller organizations would provide services such as recreation and education...
...able to deny the most notorious collaborator, Alois Indra, the Interior Ministry, which the Soviets wanted for him. He nonetheless had to give Indra a Cabinet post, the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Economists still hoped to press on with planned reforms, and Dubcek promised that "we shall in no form return to the outlived bureaucratic-centralist methods of management." But the "workers' councils," designed to give labor a voice in management, were abruptly canceled last week, apparently as a concession to the Soviets...
...Longo. whose party is Europe's largest, flatly declared that the Communist movement no longer has "centralized direction." In his new action program, Longo proposed an apertura a destra-an opening to the right-in which the Italian Communists would join with other dissident groups in Italy to form a sort of united protest front...
Cultural traditions die hard in history-conscious China. But they do die, as devotees of the highly stylized form of music drama called Peking opera are beginning to learn. The death is especially painful when the executioner is China's cultural queen, Chiang Ching, the wife of Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung...