Word: krai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Otto and Mary Krai, who live on a farm near Hastings, Minn., have one main goal in life: they want to educate their son. So last year they took seven-year-old Tommy out of Lakeland-Afton public school after watching him vegetate on a soda-pop diet of "life-adjustment" courses. Mary Krai is a former high school teacher; her 35-year-old husband is a professional mathematician. The Krals decided to school their bright but not prodigious boy at home (TIME, March 2). Tommy's six-or-seven-hours-a-day curriculum: arithmetic, grammar, German, geography, composition...
...miles away, but never back to public school ("It would set him back ten years"). Though their rebellion has cost them $1,000 so far, the Krals aim to establish their rights in a legal battle straight to the top. "We may have to mortgage our home," says Mary Krai. "But if it takes every penny, we will fight...
...luxuriantly polemical terms, that much of U.S. education is rotten with soft courses and "life adjustment" theories. After Tommy's first-grade year at the Lakeland-Afton public elementary school-where he got instruction in such matters as "language arts and social studies, whatever that means," Mary Krai recalls with scorn-his parents refused to send him back. Instead, they set up a stiff, 5½-day-a-week curriculum for the boy, taught all the courses themselves except German. They are well enough qualified to do so; they are college graduates, and Mary Krai has held teaching certificates...
...Case at the 20th Party Congress, and Leonid Brezhnev, who had worked with Khrushchev years ago when he was cleaning out opposition in the Ukraine. Four new faces were added: Otto Kuusinen, 76, a longtime Finnish Communist, Averky Aristov from Chelyabinsk in the Urals, Nikolai Belyaev from the Altai Krai in Siberia, and Nikolai Ignatov, a onetime partisan hero whom Khrushchev had planted in a key spot during the preparation of the Leningrad Case...
...wavering Communist assigned to investigate Kral quits the party. A liberal newspaperman, fortified by Kral's friendship, gains courage to become an underground agent for democracy. A Roman Catholic priest goes to prison, braced by the thought of Kral. In short, though Krai is never seen doing or saying anything (and is never explicitly granted or denied a passport), he becomes a symbol transcending ideologies...