Word: maori
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with local firms-the latest being New Zealand Newspapers, Ltd. in Auckland. Until now, the magazines were flown 1,629 miles from Melbourne, Australia, but henceforth, 35,000 copies will be printed in Auckland, then shipped by air and rail to other points-passing through towns with such colorful Maori names as Te Awamutu, Taumarunui and Ohakune. We expect our New Zealand subscribers to get TIME at least two days earlier...
...Maori word for fast swimming fish...
...Force of Energy. New Zealand's brown Maori children, descendants of proud warriors and seafarers, live by the rules of "take, break, fight and be first," writes Teacher Ashton-Warner...
...Spinster, her vivid novel pub lished in 1959, Sylvia Ashton-Warner told of a loving, slightly balmy school teacher who taught Maori children in back-country New Zealand. Herself a teacher for 17 years in Maori schools (but a grandmother rather than a spinster), Novelist Ashton-Warner endowed her heroine with an extraordinary gift for handling young Maori minds in conflict with civilization. Dropping the fictional cloak, she has now expounded her singular methods in Teacher. Published this week (Simon & Schuster; $5), it may well be the year's best book on education...
...force of energy" that swings from love to hate in seconds, they drive teachers batty. Most teachers aim to tame them by putting "your foot on their neck," and by spooning out futilely alien education from pap-filled primers that extol civilized white virtues. As a result, Maori kids tend to hate reading, fall behind in school, and wind up being labeled "stupid." It is just such frustration (or repression), argues Teacher, that leads some Maoris to become neurotics, brawlers, defeatists and alcoholics...