Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Taft bill to give the states 300 million dollars for elementary and secondary schools failed to make the grade last year, the NEA was exceedingly put out, and produced a blizzard of publicity releases. One of them bitterly pointed out that Congress was eager to spend more than 300 million dollars on tobacco and intoxicants to be sent to Europe under the Marshall Plan--but not a penny for the "millions of American children now lacking educational opportunities." The NEA is happier this year with the Democratic victory, but it is willing to stick to the kind...
...colleges will have to wait, so far as Administration plans are concerned. That's all right with such backers of federal aid as the National Education Association, which lobbies for hundreds of thousands of schools-teachers. And the colleges will probably be content to wait, figuring that if the grade and high schools get it first, higher education will only he that much closer. The important object this year, all federal-aiders maintain, is to get a permanent program started, and that is just what Democratic leaders are contemplating. David E. Lilionthal...
...words stand out. Poet Ronald Duncan's libretto had plenty of words-a male & female chorus moralized throughout-but it had too little to say and too little action. The rape scene got listeners on seat edge, but the other scenes slowed down to the speed of a grade-school tableau. Even the Herald Tribune's Thomson was disappointed: "There isn't enough music to hold the ear." Wrote his opposite number, Drama Critic Howard Barnes: "Music without a play...
...fact that he is a chemist rather than a physicist may surprise a good many scientists. The AEC's official explanation is that the work of the commission's laboratories is tending more & more toward chemistry. One of the urgent tasks is getting uranium out of low-grade ores. Another: chemical separation of the dangerous radioactive byproducts of plutonium manufacture. Says Dr. Pitzer: "The problems holding up the Atomic Energy Commission are chiefly chemical ones. The problems of physics were handled first, and they are far better in hand than the problems of chemistry...
...years ago England's waspish Critic Cyril Connolly attempted to figure out how to write a book that would attain the "immortality" of lasting for ten years-nine years longer, say, than the average novel. His own book on the subject, Enemies of Promise, has made the grade: first published in 1938, it has become a familiar, if not a favorite, of many English and U.S. intellectuals. It has now been reissued, and the story it tells is as interesting and topical as ever...