Word: homework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cavett sees himself and his show, "It gets me to read and do a lot of things I otherwise might not." The result of all this homework is an urbane and highly relaxed hour of television talk that promises to go far in making the long hot summer seem less...
...salty, his home work too hard. What should a parent do? Easy, answers Psychologist Haim Ginott. Just keep cool and coo some thing sympathetic, like "Oh, it's too salty for you. I wish we had something else," and "Yes, you do have a lot of homework." Chances are the child will eat the soup after all and resolutely go off to study...
Student dissent has infected even the second-graders at Beauvoir School of the National Cathedral in Washington -or so says Senator Ted Kennedy. The morning after a stormy homework session with seven-year-old Ted Jr., he found the following note outside his bedroom door. "You are not ascing me qestungs abouat the 5 pages. You are not creting my home work, it is a free wrold." Said Ted Sr.: "I called for the campus police...
...sort of innocence, hard to convey in fiction, or by any other means, that is bound to prove embarrassing. He is also afflicted by unsophisticated surface ills: low grades, loss of a place on the football squad, undone homework, limited television. Dad once menaces him with a putter-when the boy says he would like to drop out of school and suggests, as many American young are doing, that promoting mouthwash is not what man should be all about...
...stocky, heavy-eyed journalist-administrator who smiles easily and speaks idiomatic English. He was reportedly picked for his job because he cultivated both party members (he is one) and scholars-two groups that do not always agree in Russia. Arbatov has, as he says, "done his homework" on the U.S. Currently he is doing some firsthand research by traveling in the U.S. and talking with journalists, businessmen (California's Norton Simon, Litton Industries' Charles-"Tex"-Thornton), and even U.S. Russia watchers (Columbia's Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harvard's Merle Fainsod). He participated in a discussion group...