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...favorite theme of his: "Selfsufficiency is the very essence of sin ... What a lot of rubbish has been written about being masters of our fate and captains of our soul! We have not realized that in threescore years and ten, man does not pass much beyond the kindergarten stage . . . Let a man be aware that he is and has nothing of himself, and the doors of his spirit are open Godward...
Meanwhile, through Baltimore, the plague spread (see cuts). A group of women picketed P.S. 34 because twelve Negroes had been admitted to the kindergarten. Next day another group gathered about the Southern High School, paraded around with signs ("Negroes Not Allowed"), jeered and booed Negro pupils as they left the building. The situation grew so ugly that the Mayor's Commission on Human Relations finally asked all Protestant clergymen to read a special statement to their congregations. The statement was in fact a stern denunciation of "those who are in effect picketing the Constitution of the United States...
...really distressing part about this kindergarten naughtiness is that the pictures take themselves very seriously. Self-consciously trying to be daring, they inject bad taste into normal banality by using "hell" as a drawing card. This is especially obvious in the embarrassment that everyone seems to feel when a character swears in American movies. With the revival of Gone With the Wind came Rhett Butler's famous exit line, "Frankly, Scarlet, I don't give a damn." Coming as the final word of exasperation from a much put-upon hero, the sentence itself was quite inoffensive. But as the only...
...combination of eleven standard one-story houses linked by a breezeway, with interiors converted into light, airy classrooms, the kitchen in one serving as a teachers' lunchroom. Last week there was work yet to be done; carpenters were still nailing on roof shingles; there was no electricity; the kindergarten's blocks had not arrived. But months ahead of schedule, Linda Mar's children had their own school-thanks to the joint enterprise of a builder, an architect and a school board...
...away from her weeping five-year-old daughter Kathlene. Said Mrs. Blomberg: "She's been dreaming of nothing but school for weeks. Now all she can say is, 'I want to go home.' " An hour later, tears dry, Kathlene was happily drawing her first picture in kindergarten. An unorthodox school was off to a regulation start...