Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next year's budget will be another whopper: 20th will make 40 pictures worth $60 million, among them The Greatest Story Ever Told, John Brown's Body and The Battle of Leyte Gulf...
...Conant was highly encouraged: "All of the schools could have been made as good as the best or even better. I am more and more convinced that it would be much more difficult to make a radical change in our schools than to improve those we now have...
...bestseller since the vastly more excited Why Johnny Can't Read (1955). "With the mantle of Dr. Conant around me," as one principal puts it, many a working schoolman has finally got the school board's green light for scores of reforms and experiments that promise to make the new year one of the richest in history. Items: CJ In Philadelphia, high schools will give superior seniors five major subjects instead of four. In Richmond, high schools will begin a five-year program of 23 courses. In the Peekskill (N.Y.) High School, a Conant-inspired inventory should become...
...budget. Solution: hiring part-time "lay readers." college-trained housewives who can take over the chore at 25? a theme. The idea is being used in 16 cities. ¶ Across the country, arithmetic is being switched from rote learning and the "social utility" approach, which make the subject either inscrutable or silly. The new idea is to fascinate children with mathematical concepts and analysis so they can reason as scientists do. San Diego tried it last year, got ,000 children of all mental levels to advance twice as fast. This year a revolutionary new textbook embodying the technique will spread...
...summer shows pointed up the fact that abstraction reigns supreme in the hearts of the nation's young artists. To make a great abstraction is difficult-perhaps even impossible. But passably assured and decorative examples are fairly easy to produce, and juries-under the spell of trend and times-tend to award them their prizes. The jury at Chicago's Art Institute gave Richard Talaber, 26, the top prize for just such a picture. At Boston's elaborate summer Arts Festival, the Grand Prize went to a sculptor, Gilbert Franklin, for his safely modern Beach Figure, clean...