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When the curtain rises, the time is 1900, and Cinderella-here named Georgina-is in "the white folks' kitchen," mopping. Her mama, a five-by-five fortress of a woman (Lillian Hayman), argues that a mop is a Negro girl's best friend. But Georgina (Uggams) begs her prince charming, a Pullman porter named Clem (Robert Hooks), to take her away from all this. Together, they take the overground railway North...
...along the Mexican border in 1916, first to fly more than 100 miles nonstop, first to operate a radio in flight, first to command the fledgling U.S. Air Service First Army in World War I and, before retiring in 1935, the man who selected the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress to fill U.S. needs for a long-range bomber; of a heart attack; at Andrews Air Force Base...
Such translocutions certainly will never occur if the country's reading "Establishment" has anything to do with it. Composed of reading scholars strategically based in colleges around the country, this fortress of academia has refused to give sanction to the Wood method. Most of these experts have devoted their lives to problems of reading efficiency, not reading speed. The conventional wisdom has proved, scientifically, that it is humanly impossible to read more than 900 words per minute...
Nonetheless, the parents have cause for complaint. P.S. 80, for example, is an obsolescent fortress, erected in 1924, that serves Manhattan's East Harlem district. Nearly all of the 886 students in the primary grades are Negro or Puerto Rican. An alarming 82% of its second-graders, 90% of its fourth-graders and 94% of its fifth-graders read below national norms. Every year, more than half of the students shift to another school as their parents change tenements. Of those who remain at P.S. 80, half will drop out of high school...
Scorn Gone. The most remarkable aspect of the Luther renaissance is that it is enthusiastically endorsed by Roman Catholics, whose postconciliar hymnbooks are patently incomplete if they do not include his martial hymn, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. Less than a generation ago, Luther was scorned-even by Catholic scholars who should have known better-as a sensuous, psychotic, fallen monk, the deliberate destroyer of Christendom. Luther, wrote Jesuit Hartmann Grisar in his 1926 biography, suffered from "an extraordinary capacity for self-delusion...