Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be, me is a question of grammar and not of existence...
...street workers, often storefront graduates themselves, make the initial contact with a promising dropout. Upon entering the academy, a youngster takes a bedrock curriculum of reading, English grammar and arithmetic. Once attending regularly, he moves on to a storefront Academy of Transition, where the spectrum of courses is broader and the teachers-often college graduates disillusioned with the public schools-attempt to stimulate his interest in further learning...
...trademark. Handkerchiefs, sweatshirts and blouses decorated with his shaggy countenance are popular in half a dozen countries. French schoolgirls hang his photo in their boudoirs alongside those of movie idols, and students at the London School of Economics now greet each other with the salutation "Che." Peruvian grammar-school children hold hands, dance in a circle and chant a new nursery rhyme: "With a knife and a spoon, long live Che Guevara...
Nonsense Protein? Increasingly, researchers at the conference tended to make a sharp distinction between long-and short-term memory-in other words, the difference between a man's ability to remember a poem learned in grammar school and his inability, for the life of him, to remember the name of the fellow he met at lunch yesterday. Sweden's Dr. Hydén felt that the creation of protein (as in pigeons, rats and goldfish) is essential to man's formation of long-term memories. Human brain cells, said Hydén, seldom divide and replace themselves...
Sponsors of the proposal wrote that "most Negroes are now caught up in a vicious cycle. In the case of education they are condemned to inadequate grammar and secondary schools. As a result, they do not attend the better colleges in sufficient numbers and are under-represented in graduate schools. This situation means that there is a continuing luck of black professionals, lawyers, doctors...