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...forgotten Maria Montessori, the practical Italian idealist who founded her own brand of progressive education in 1907. Though once Americans acclaimed her, John Dewey's permissive disciples pooh-poohed her as too rigid, and only in Europe have Montessori schools made real headway. But last week, in a handsome new building in Greenwich, Conn., the nation's only "pure" Montessori school was dedicated. Whitby School is startling on at least two counts: it was founded by firmly anti-permissive Roman Catholics, and its old Montessori methods turn out to be a showcase of nearly every "new" idea that...
...trouble winning the confidence of East Harlem's ganglads. And it was not really until he met tough Pete Thomas, who spoke the language of East Harlem as it can only be spoken by those who have been raised in its asphalt jungle, that Vaus made significant headway. After Vaus persuaded Thomas to work full time with Y.D.I., the organization became an important factor in East Harlem life. Some might suspect Vaus and Thomas, with their criminal backgrounds, of being a couple of Fagin types, but the doubters do not include the cops, educators or social workers in East...
...Bartholomew's Day Massacre of August 1572, during which perhaps as many as 10,000 Huguenots were murdered. The Edict of Nantes (1598) gave France's Protestants freedom of worship and academic and political rights, but by 1661 the Roman Catholic Church and the crown had made headway in whittling down Protestant liberty, and in 1685 the Edict was revoked. Within a few weeks 2,000 churches were razed to the ground, and thousands of Huguenots (French Reformed and Calvinist believers) were fleeing the country...
...book and lyrics have been rewritten, by Bill Hoffman and Marshall Barer respectively, in a grinding discord of styles: "Somebody goofed" alternates with "Such audacity deserves punishment." Mr. Marre has engaged Broadway performers rather than singers of any pretensions, but none of them can make very much headway against the stubbornly unfunny material...
Pushing It Along. Last week's tributes were little more than Kennedy had been getting all along the campaign trail. As his bandwagon gathered headway, the press sometimes even appeared to help push it along.* One reason that Kennedy looked so good in the crucial Wisconsin and West Virginia primaries was that the Kennedy camp's shrewdly calculated pre-primary misgivings had been widely heralded in the press, adding immeasurable luster to the ultimate victories...