Word: homework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appalled! . . . Your Nov. 10 article ... on top California executives and their jobs stuns me. Hard work is admirable. Long working hours, business dinners and homework are often necessary, profitable and understandable. But not when other factors, important in their own way, must be sacrificed. Are these men so selfish that they can go merrily on their way, content in their way of life while their wives are unhappy? These executives didn't marry for love and companionship; they wanted only topnotch housekeepers, who are supposed to run the house, manage the servants, raise the children in a proper fashion...
...left-the 64 hard workers. They were almost all employees of large national corporations. Said Talbott: "They worked from 69 hours a week to as high as 112, and I mean all work." Most were in the office by 8, left at 6:30 with a pile of homework; when they went out to dinner (an average of three times a week), it was always on business...
...Social Welfare Council of the Oranges and Maplewood, N.J. finally got the lowdown on how teen-agers spend their leisure time: 81% watch TV 11.3 hours a week; 77.6% listen to the radio 9.7 hours a week; 47.5% spend about 8.2 hours on dates; 83.8 spend 9.2 hours on homework; 61% spend 4.4 hours talking on the telephone; 46.3% spend 8 hours doing nothing...
Instead of merely assigning students big swatches out of textbooks, the classe nouvelle first teaches them how to study: how to use a dictionary, take notes, boil material down to essentials. Trying to breathe new life into old subjects, teachers organize field trips to museums, factories, galleries. Homework is reduced in favor of class projects, manual training, undergraduate magazines and newspapers. By last week, France felt that it had gone a long way in sweeping some of the cobwebs out of the classroom. But that did not mean that the traditional curriculum was being thrown out entirely. After all, said...
...voice to the critical clamor until the cold facts sunk in. Instead, the Observer confessed: "Everything . . . turns on the question; Was there, prior to the Yalu raids, a lull, a tacit cease-fire or near-cease-fire in Korea?" The Observer had done a little quick homework and was startled by its findings: "The plain fact-continuous and hence unreported-is that there has been a long-drawn battle which has been in progress almost since the start of the armistice talks." In this light, the Observer was alarmed at the way Britons were talking. "It is still possible...