Word: manual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though far less fortunate than the plunder of Gricg a few years back, the raid on Borodin produces a few trophics. At worst, there are atmospheric interludes of Hollywood Baghdad music, which permit the "Princesses of Ababu" to cavort around a palace pool obviously built in manual training class. At best, there are agreeable melodies to be ruined by the lyrics, and two lively numbers, "He's In Love" and the first act Finale. In any case, the music helps Kismet to whirl with amiable vulgarity through thirteen scenes, and the New York businessman will probably find the show...
Education and occupation make a considerable difference. Nationalization has less appeal for those who went to college than for those who did not. Percentages favoring coal-mine nationalization: college, 10%; high school, 13%; grade school, 20%. White-collar workers favor Government ownership less than farmers do; farmers less than manual workers...
...schoolmasters, as a matter of course, still whipped by the chart (one lash for every foot above three climbed up a tree, two lashes for blotting a copybook). New York instituted night schools in 1847, children's classes in hygiene and sanitation in 1885, in sewing, cooking and manual training in 1887, lectures for workingmen...
...last half-century to accomplish a dizzying task -to embrace, instruct and elevate every child and seeking adult of all classes, all nationalities, all shades of intellectual capability: to teach the sick, the neurotic and the healthy, to inspire the genius and to give the sluggard some manual ability to earn a living. The problems which lie between this noble objective and its fulfillment, the differences between the men who attempt to carry it out and the politicians who control them, have shaped the New York school system of today...
Reader M. Valeriote [Sept. 21] sounds like a parochial school graduate who lost his faith in college when he was introduced to calipers and test tubes. If he had ever taken the trouble to consult even a third-rate manual in theology above the catechism level, he would have found that the doctrine that God transcends all human experience and imagination is a commonplace in Roman Catholic thought...