Word: homework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night descent on Omodhos, a shiny white vineyard village of small, neat houses and narrow cobblestoned streets. Nothing looked more innocent. In the cottage of the village constable the parachute lieutenant walked in on a family scene: before a blazing fire the constable was helping a child with his homework while his wife tended a baby in a cradle. Another child crawled on the floor, and a grandmother was setting the table. But the lieutenant noticed that the fire had only just been lit. Kicking it apart, he found that the hearthstone moved. Underneath was a shaft leading down...
...born 30 years ago on Long Island, started in journalism as a copy boy for the old New York Sun. There he ran errands for the late Grantland Rice, and John Kieran helped him with his math homework. At the end of World War II he was a newscaster and disk jockey for the armed forces radio stations in the Philippines. Back home, he covered the U.N. for the United Press before he enrolled at Harvard. Graduated in 1950, Connery worked for a year in the university's news office, then joined TIME. Ranging out of our Chicago bureau...
...Matinee-time the children in many homes are napping and housewives are resting from their homework. "But," says McCleery, "people like honest, literate stuff at any time, not the soap-opera kind." Monday he gives them his "most realistic, experimental and artistic" shows (with Actors' Studio overtones). Tuesday is "problem-play-with-guts" day. "We pick them up with a comedy on Wednesday, if we can find one." Thursday he tries for an offbeat production, "with a gimmick twist," and Friday is a rehash of a Broadway play. Mostly, McCleery is in a Monday mood: "Here are my people...
...pupils? Though two out of three teachers said that less than one in every 100 students is a troublemaker, a substantial number felt that delinquency has increased over the past ten years. Half reported an increase in impertinence and discourtesy, 43% said that more pupils disregard their homework, and about one in three noted a rise in vandalism, drinking, profanity and stealing. In the past year, 28% of the big-city teachers and half of those in slum areas reported at least one act of physical violence against a teacher in their schools...
...Homework. In Hemet, Calif., a schoolboy dropped into a stationery store, browsed around, sheepishly asked the clerk: "Have you got any blank report cards...