Word: highs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Martin described the group as "a response to public discontent with the quality of high school English teaching." The member colleges and schools of the C.E.E.B. have also become increasingly dissatisfied with the results of English instruction, he explained. Martin cautioned, however, "There is no proof, only a general impression, that students today read and write worse than students of 25 years...
...Commission will undoubtedly propose projects for bringing high school English teachers in closer contact with their subject matter, he said. The effectiveness of seminars, special summer sessions, and weekend conferences will be studied...
Martin emphasized that the Commission "does not want to impose a standard college preparatory curriculum on the U.S. high school...
...first half of the evening found the Choral Society alternating between uneasiness and an unusually lacklustre manner, with even their dependable tone sounding either shrill or dead. By contrast, the second part exhibited the familiar spirit and high quality of the chorus, especially in three beautiful Welsh folksongs arranged with taste and imagination by the Society's conductor, Elliot Forbes...
...about 1917, Modigliani's drawing reaches a consistently high standard of draftsmanship. With a few swift and caressing strokes, as in Lola, Modigliani can evoke a lovely girl, sitting at her ease, looking alertly at the viewer. Drawn in the last year of the artist's short, wantonly bohemian life, A Young Man is especially enjoyable for its intricately balanced composition and its artful, linear suggestion of facial volumes...