Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as gratifying to St. Louis School Superintendent Philip J. Hickey was the fact that the gifted students vastly accelerated their social development (thus seeming to refute the theory that isolation of the intellectually gifted tends, to stunt their social growth). With a new batch of gifted sixth-graders starting...
Halting the Loss. Superintendent Hickey freely acknowledges that the program is still experimental and subject to substantial revision. St. Louis has not yet determined what to do with its gifted sixth-graders when they reach high school. Even the curriculum is likely to be revised as the program's...
Grace After Grandeur. The music goes into an arietta by Lully (Louis XIV's favorite composer), sung in a sweetly plaintive soprano voice. From the 17 great windows of the Hall of Mirrors, lights blaze as courtiers chatter and fawn. In the distance a voice proclaims, "Gentlemen, the King...
Louis XIV grows older. Over a subtle background melody, Madame de Maintenon makes her legendary stab at Madame de Montespan: "Last night I dreamt, Madame, that we were on the grand stairs of Versailles: I was going up; you were coming down." The King dies, and several deep orchestral chords...
Louis XV also dies. After him the deluge-mob shouts, bloodthirsty gutter songs, the Marseillaise. The kettledrummers in the orchestra knock themselves out producing revolutionary thunder. And then the quieter waltzes of Citizen-King Louis Philippe, a brief reprise of glory under Napoleon the Third, World War I -La Madelon...