Word: insists
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Allow Me to Institute . . . Phonics is back now, but it is not the center of attraction it once was. Mere word calling, the reading experts insist, is not reading for meaning. It is quite possible, says Mary O'Rourke, senior state supervisor of Massachusetts elementary education, for a little girl to read out institute. "But I have heard that same little girl define it: 'When two people don't know each other, you institute them...
...minutes). For slow elementary pupils there are "rooms of 20," where pupils get individual instruction from reading experts. In Evanston, 111., sixth-graders make up "reading wheels," with the spokes representing various books read. Eighth-graders must report on a book a week. But in all reading, the experts insist, each Johnny should proceed at his own level. For the 15-year-old who can only manage fourth-grade books, such classics as Ben Hur and The Count of Monte Cristo have been simplified accordingly...
What makes the situation even more ridiculous is that many athletes either refuse to wear their letter sweaters around school or insist on wearing them inside out, with the letter obscured. Then, when they get home, many sport even a minor letter proudly, and attempt to create the impression that they have won it in a different sport. All of which leads one to conclude that letter distinctions are somewhat superfluous...
...with immense elaboration, spell out one of the saddest stories in literature. Few Americans read King Lear, and fewer still would read it if it existed only in Scholar Kittredge's famous notes. Middleton Murry's book is of that scholarly kind. Yet, readers who do not insist on a bland diet of print will be well rewarded by this study of a man of tragic genius...
...anniversary movie very severely. Scrooge himself, if he were a critic (and what better occupation for him?), would point out that the beggar who inherits a fortune and finds himself better off without it is getting to be pretty stale plot material. It would take a sadistic pedant to insist that Chevalier's beggar changes character a little as he changes financial position, or to say that Ma Pomme contains several genuinely dull scenes. Such comments would be un-seasonal carpings, however, and their originators would richly deserve to choke on their fruit cake...