Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carey illustrates all his points with apt quotations from recent books or newspapers. His commentary is pellucid; and it avoids all, but the most elementary technical terms of grammar and syntax. From time to time evidences of a delightful wit even crop...
Harvard's .benign, bemused Werner Wilhelm Jaeger, 70, world-renowned interpreter of ancient Greek humanism, one of the first scholars to bear Harvard's exalted University Professor title. At nine, German-born Classicist Jaeger fascinatedly read his first Latin grammar straight through, at 25 took over the University of Basel's Greek chair, once occupied by Nietzsche. His biography of Aristotle (1923) revolutionized classical scholarship when he was still a young professor at the University of Berlin; his monumental Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture is a three-volume university, a gold mine of the ideas that...
...sudden fire that engulfed the second floor of Our Lady of the Angels grammar school in Chicago last December, 91 children and three nuns died, scores of children were seriously injured (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week, on behalf of five children still under medical care for severe burns. Chicago Lawyer Burton Joseph filed in Cook County circuit court a $1,750,000 damage suit against 1) the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, for letting the school become a "dangerous fire trap," and 2) the City of Chicago, for failing to enforce its own fire ordinances for safety standards in schools...
...There is something wrong with the system when a man does everything he should do and still ends up in that spot." Ekblom has not ended up in that spot because Hupp is only one of his interests. The son of an immigrant cabinetmaker, Ekblom went to work after grammar school, earned enough money to set up an auto repair shop at 16, became a self-taught expert in economics, accounting, corporate law and management. He turned his hand to selling cars and several other businesses, became a corporate doctor for sick companies, opened a Wall Street brokerage firm. Five...
...diet of "life-adjustment" courses. Mary Krai is a former high school teacher; her 35-year-old husband is a professional mathematician. The Krals decided to school their bright but not prodigious boy at home (TIME, March 2). Tommy's six-or-seven-hours-a-day curriculum: arithmetic, grammar, German, geography, composition, spelling, mythology, music, poetry and chess. Tommy also reads books usually offered to 13-year-olds...