Word: highly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that he prefers his native Rhineland to the raw, "uncivilized" Prussians; once he cracked to a Berlin friend: "Why do you go on living in a town where the monkeys still swing from the trees?" With his imperious eyes, his thin, determined lips, and his rather high, monotonous voice, Adenauer is not a popular leader, nor does he want to be. He never shouts, never tries for dramatic effects; in his political followers he inspires respect, but rarely deep personal devotion. Yet Konrad Adenauer brings to his task an unshakable confidence and a profound faith...
Meanwhile, the school administrator is so busy worrying about inkspot removers and paper towels or boning up on articles in administration journals ("Master Lists and Suggested Methods of Storage of Equipment for the Course in High School Physics") that he has no time to think about education either...
Bullfight. The sense of an approaching climax kept feelings high. Liberals flocked to Carrera Septima, Bogota's main street, and defied the government ban on demonstrations by gibing at the police and cheering for their party. One enthusiast amused the crowd by making bullfight passes with his coat at a clumsy young policeman charging him with a rifle butt. The cop finally fired from the hip into the air; the torero and his aficionados fled...
Connecticut Author Mortimer Smith (The Life of Ole Bull) had four children of school age, but like most parents, he had never bothered to find out much about the public schools they were going to. Three years ago, he became a member of the regional high-school board for the towns of Newtown, Woodbury, Southbury and Bethlehem, and "Oh my," says he, "how my eyes were opened...
...waxing floors than they were in basic subjects." When they did speak about education, "they were all stamped out of the same die, following the doctrines and dogmas of the educators" in blind obedience. What sort of education were those dogmas leading to? Smith decided that it was high time parents found out. This week, in his "primer for parents," And Madly Teach (Henry Regnery; $2), Mortimer Smith reported what he had learned...