Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recommending improvements in teaching techniques, Chall calls for modification in the beginning texts now used, a re-examination of the content of reading courses, raising the educational level of teachers, better diagnostic tests, and most importantly better research into reading. No researcher, she says, can claim "the final word...
...candidate with a strong civil rights record, Smith's greatest potential strength lay in the predominantly Negro areas such as Gerttown. Gerttown is one of the city's pocket ghettos--rows of low level shabby brick buildings squashed together inside a wall of light industry. But even in these wards Smith was defeated by a Catholic candidate whose campaign tactics were to approach the local priest with a certain sum of money. New Orleans is ninety per cent Catholic. "I tried to speak to the priests but they wouldn't see me. They had obviously been told not to have...
...Yale College faculty's decision to adopt a form of pass-fail is not nearly so remarkable as reliance on a numerical grading system for so long in the past. Yale students, of course, greeted the abolishment of numerical grades with cheers Thursday. They know that most college-level work cannot be measured with numerical precision...
...with the decline of the West has an endearing arrogance. Yet there is much to excuse his consciousness of belonging to an elite. It is this consciousness, in fact, that raises his book from being merely an insider's memoir of the liberal British intelligentsia-although on this level alone it is very highly readable. It is still amusing to hear, in Woolf's tone of melancholy malice, how "Tom" Eliot confessed that he had "behaved like a priggish, pompous little ass" on a weekend. And it is still poignant to learn that Sigmund Freud, ravaged by terminal...
...money. It was not easy. He and his wife were poor until Virginia's novels began to sell, as well as the works of other distinguished authors on his list: Eliot, Auden and Freud (24 volumes in English). It was an exemplary publishing career, but on the personal level Woolf is a singularly jejune autobiographer. The record of a suicide is always painful, but a curious detachment in Woolf's character leads him to describe the series of crippling psychotic episodes that led Virginia Woolf in 1941 to drown herself as if he were her doctor...