Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cigarettes for several years..." and so on, or something like it, until they were up in the hotel bedroom and he wanted her to leave because tomorrow was to be a big day of espionage and he needed sleep. She left cheerfully and he slept restlessly, and the lesson we all learned from this was that people aren't always what you first take them for. This is probably what Decision Before Dawn tries and fails to say, but the failure isn't Hildegarde's fault...
...came; or rather, the first lesson came-a fine, fat envelope that proved to contain a small booklet of simple exercises and a mighty stack of inspirational literature ("Today I may be frail and weak,But soon I shall be tough as teak...
...year-old and another. The dark-skinned "Oriental" children, whose parents come from North Africa and the Middle East, were almost as well dressed and just as well scrubbed as the Europeans. In the scramble for seats, they showed the same giggling eagerness. But then the teacher began the lesson-and the class was promptly split...
...debate over how Johnny should learn to read may have passed from the headlines, but to Columnist Dorothy Thompson there is another question that is equally important: Are the schools giving Johnny a reading diet of literature-or of pap? Last week, after comparing the old lesson books to the slick basal readers of today with their controlled vocabularies, word-frequency counts, and bland little tales about Dick and Jane, Columnist Thompson had her answer: "It is possible," says she in the current Ladies' Home
...modern reader, top writers are often automatically ruled out. "Fine literature, even such as is consciously written for children, cannot be created out of a meager vocabulary, much of it proper names (Mary, Jack) or names of common objects (chair, train, dish), especially if the author has to produce lessons in which each new word must be repeated ten times, and words learned in a previous lesson, five . . . Discriminating writers are usually quite unable to play this sort of game, so the modern readers are not written by writers, but by tailors of words to suit the methodology and keep...