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...Boston Correspondent Philip Taubman began visiting Carol North and her four daughters in November. He has returned to their Cape Cod home four times since then and sometimes found himself joining hands with the girls while Amy, 1 1, said grace at dinner, or helping Jody, 15, with her homework...
General William Westmoreland, on the other hand, assailed Congressmen for not even using Administration-supplied information at committee hearings. He charged that they do not do their homework and are more interested in "stagemanship, self-aggrandizement and demagogucry" than in analyzing "extremely complex" issues. TIME'S MacNeil contends that legislators are afraid to hire more help because of adverse public reaction, but that if they forthrightly stated their need, the expense would be accepted...
...National Education has announced a broad program of reform to start next fall. The old dictées will give way to exercises designed to help a student's development. No longer will pupils be compelled to memorize long lists of irregular verbs, or to suffer punitive homework consisting of copying conjugations a hundred times over. Indeed the ministry described the traditional teaching of grammar as a "plague." Instead, children will be encouraged to talk and act freely in class. Even the scratchy pens with which French children learned to write an elegant hand are to be discarded...
...timing and resilience and Langdon's scrambled innocence. Tati absorbs and assimilates each skill like a diligent pupil taking great care with his lessons, and that is the way they are applied. Watching Tati is like listening to the brightest kid in the class run through his homework, dogged, letter perfect and without inspiration. His movies since M. Hulot's debut have been very like the best scene in that film, where Hulot, out for a little recreation, finds himself slowly and inescapably folding up in a kayak, then sinking majestically beneath the sea. ·Jay Cocks
...paid for going to school and Dave had to pay room and board even though he was only 15 years old. And so he worked all summer and when it got too cold to caddy he worked in Grocerland until 10:30 at night; no time for homework and the next day back to school and on and on just like his father picked up steel in the crane at Republic day after day for a quarter century for $5.13 an hour, $5.31 nights and a gold watch and thank you after another quarter century...