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...Education urged all schools to begin ten years of language in the third grade, the most sound-sensing age level (all Russian children begin in the fifth grade). This year Washington, D.C. is starting third-grade French and Spanish. Hawaii's elementary schools will teach Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Tagalog. More than 400 U.S. high schools will teach Russian; New York City and its suburbs alone has more high school Russian courses than the entire nation had two years ago. All San Francisco high schools are switching language study from the formal grammar approach to the U.S. Army...
...climax in last week's display at London's Tate Gallery. Washington's National Gallery of Art this fall hung a vast Blake exhibition drawn from both England and America. ¶Articles, lectures and broadcasts on Blake are being read and heard in many tongues, including Hindi and Japanese. A color film of his graphic works is in production in England. A memorial bust of Blake, by Sir Jacob Epstein, was placed this year in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey...
...same basic structure applies to all the introductory language courses given. A student who cannot pass the language requirement at entrance must enter the elementary course in one of the twelve modern language (French, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Burmese, Thai, and Vietnamese) offered at the University, though he may be accelerated into the second half of these courses if his past training warrants...
...King. Many of his listeners in multilingual India, though they cheered and clapped mightily, could understand scarcely a word that he said in English or Hindi. Fastidiously avoiding all the local grass-roots issues for which he has no taste-the caste problem, anti-cow slaughter, communalism, astrology-Nehru explained the Kashmir issue and India's foreign policy to audience after audience of backwoods illiterates. "Long live Nehru," shouted the crowds, pleased and happy to have had a glimpse of the great man. To many of them, India, the Congress Party and Nehru were one and the same thing...
Indians responded to the Communist blandishments with a will. "Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai," they shouted at the Red leader-"India and China, brothers, brothers." "If the entire world became one pattern," said Nehru, conceding perhaps a few basic differences between his government and that of Red China, "interest in life would lessen...