Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where the U.S. grows its food and fiber, the majestic checkerboard of spring was beginning to form. The plains and rolling hills of Illinois and Iowa, where farmers were turning the soil for this year's crop of corn, were a geometric pattern of black and brown and green. On to the West and South, through Kansas and into Texas, the spreading, endless fields of wheat were coming green and beginning to ripple softly in the wind. In the Deep South, across the bottom of Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, green shoots were peeking out of the ridges...
...mothers, with toddlers and perambulated infants in tow, formed a human barricade to stymie a bulldozer sent to flatten the flora on a half-acre dear to the kiddies but now slated to become a parking lot for patrons of the park's fancy-menued Tavern-on-the-Green. The man behind the man who manned the 'dozer: New York City's fireballing, thin-skinned Park Commissioner Robert Moses. He lost no time putting down the citizens' rebellion, had a storm fence thrown up around the disputed territory between one midnight and dawn, glowed next...
...public high-school class, many experts agree, invariably bogs down to the pace of its dullest and most recalcitrant pupils. What can be done about it? In the current Atlantic Monthly, Ohio High-School Teacher Caspar D. Green offers a remedy as drastic as any suggested yet. Says Green, in effect: throw the recalcitrants...
Passivity & Protest. "The teachers I know," says Green, "agree almost unanimously in preferring to teach what may be called advanced academic subjects . . . The pupil takes these subjects because of some intellectual spark of his own." The required courses are something else again. Of 26 pupils in a tenth-grade English class, for instance, three might be outstanding students, 13 might range from "medium to poor." five may be "very poor," and five may be "incapable of doing anything that could properly be labeled tenth-grade English. They do not write a sentence; they do not know or care about capitals...
...approve, and the parents would strenuously object." As a result, educators have tended to turn their courses into entertainments in the vain effort to make learning seem as much fun as dancing or basketball. When that fails, they add more and more practical courses. But chances are, says Green, that if a student gets an F in English he will also get an F in shop. "If students raise Cain in algebra, they break tools and bore holes in workbenches and cut off fingers." As for the much touted "valuable social experience" a pupil gets in school, "the values which...