Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost 1,000 acres of land to the state for forestry experimentation; the delegation wanted 125 acres back for a golf course. The Georgia senate was agreeable; so was the house. So, too, was Marvin Griffin, who ultimately had to sign the bill. But according to the Fulton County grand jury indictment, Cheney took $1,500 to start the ink flowing in the governor's pen. The Appling County folks went in debt...
...John Keats, free-lance writer and rebellious parent (of three) who has spent two years studying schools, lists as his only other qualification the note that he owns a typewriter. Keats's notion is that if the public wants better education, it should form "citizens' grand juries"-school boards frequently are too secretive and P.T.A.s too social to be useful-to make calm and exhaustive investigations of local schools. Then suggestions should be made and enforced...
Discipline or Driver Training? The question such a Keatsian grand jury should ask itself: Does it want the oldfashioned, facts-and-mental-discipline sort of education, or does it want life adjustment, "to make children unselfish and interested in others"? Keats is for facts and discipline first. Throughout the book he scores against the life adjusters, who do not believe that mastery of a subject is very important, who give "open-book tests" in basic courses and proudly call their high schools "cafeterias of learning," who offer such dessert courses as "sewing, cooking, interior decorating, teaching, garage repair, driver training...
...opinion that should be debated the most thoughtfully is Keats's basic premise: that in education the customers are always right-or at least have the right to get exactly what they ask for. He cites New Canaan, Conn, as a community in which the grand-jury system' worked well, produced better schools and better scholars. But in Houston recently, a band of diehard lady patriots called Minute Women succeeded in browbeating a publisher into reprinting an eighth-grade geography and omitting references to the U.N. Under Keats's grand-jury rules, they were as justified...
Died. Leon C. Phillips, 67, onetime (1939-43) governor of Oklahoma; of a heart attack; in Okmulgee, Okla. A former University of Oklahoma footballer, 3OO-lb. Democrat Red Phi lips once called out the National Guard to stop federal (PWA) work on the Grand River Dam, eventually turned completely against his party and the New Deal...