Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reckon the area of a square when the length of only one side was labeled. Two-thirds of the 13-year-olds could calculate the "distance around" a pictured rectangle with two dimensions given; only a third could determine how much fencing was needed to go around a rectangular garden not pictured, but with the same two dimensions given. An N.A.E.P. advisory panel of educators tentatively blamed textbooks and oversimplified "back to basics" programs for the poor results in the "higher order of cognitive skills." though most problems seemed basic indeed...
Katharine White, who died in 1977, was the wife of The New Yorker's redoubtable E.B. White, who has edited and updated her pieces, written between 1958 and 1970, and garlanded Onward and Upward in the Garden with a graceful introduction...
K.S.W., as she was known, did of course fill her house with flowers year round, but she had little patience with the artsy floral constructions ("Zen and all zat") cherished by garden clubs. She never belonged to such an organization. "Sometimes," her husband recalls, "as I sat quietly in my corner, watching her throw flowers at each other, it looked as though she were playing darts in an English...
...planning and planting of her garden in southern Maine that she found her deepest satisfaction. Like all serious gardeners, she was no April-to-September hobbyist. Her first magazine piece was written in February, the "season of lists and callow hopefulness" when hundreds of thousands of true gardeners are reading their catalogues and "dreaming their dreams." This month she would have been planning her spring bulb garden, ordering indoor plants for the winter and putting down fertilizer for the snows to drive into the soil...
...former Johston Gate and Church Street stops will be replaced by a stop on Mass Ave. behind Lamont Library and one on Boylston Street across the road from Kirkland House. Students may request to disembark on Garden Street near the Cambridge cemetary, Geiger said...