Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Basic Grammar. Today the sculpture they welded at the Borsig factory stands outside West Berlin's Free University, a soaring monument to the country's postwar technological strides. Similar commissions by the pair, along with a large exhibition currently traveling throughout West Germany, reveal a technical facility in touch with the times. Most of the acclaim goes to Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff, 43, today ranked as Germany's leading sculptress. Her collaborator husband does not mind his relative oblivion. A former actor, he figures that she was already well on her way before they became a team...
...from a Munich art school for lack of talent. Fortunately, British Sculptor Henry Moore saw at least a spark, in 1947 admitted her to his studio for study. "I executed a madonna in stone for him, and every minute was wonderful," she recalls. After learning sculpture's basic grammar from Moore, Brigitte was ready to leave traditional materials behind, sought out the Russian-born constructivist Antoine Pevsner in Paris, put in another year of apprenticeship with...
...Tank. In 1937, at the age of 50, Kirwan came to Washington from Youngstown, elected to the congressional seat once held by Presidents James Garfield and William McKinley. Despite his double negatives and other grammar gaps, he was re-elected 14 times, thereby earning enough seniority on the Appropriations Committee to become the House's undisputed Prince of Pork. Kirwan is never loath to combat a political foe by lidding his barrel. Four years ago, when Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse voted against a $10 million aquarium for the District of Columbia-a pet Kirwan project-Mike simply...
...sudden impact of federal programs can be largely blamed for this year's troubles, long-range pressures are also squeezing the teaching profession. College graduates who choose teaching are turning in increasing numbers to jobs with the greatest prestige, those in colleges and high schools, leaving a growing grammar school gap. High school teachers tend to move up to junior colleges, which employ more than 65,000 as compared with 26,000 five years ago. Contending that elementary teachers have a far more profound influence on students than college teachers, James E. Russell, secretary of the N.E.A...
...many youths. Just as obviously, the schools' own self-improvements, plus such antipoverty programs as the Job Corps, should be the main remedies for the failure. But as long as the military services need more manpower, it seems reasonable that they should teach such basic skills as grammar, reading and arithmetic, along with more technical skills. The relevant question is whether they are equipped...