Word: maria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hands Unlike Hands. Yet only now is the Montessori method being tried on the gravest problem facing big-city educators in the U.S. Recalling that Maria Montessori formed her educational concepts teaching 60 slum children in Rome almost 60 years ago, some Chicago experimenters are running a Montessori school that tackles the job of preparing preschool kids from racial ghettos for the strange world of middle-class public schools...
...year-old lies on a rubber mat, arranging a washbasin and cups; a five-year-old, blindfolded with a blue eyeshade, feels a sphere, a cube, a cylinder, following out some blueprint in his mind. Ordinary progressive schools have similar equipment, since U.S. toy manufacturers have stolen many of Maria Montessori's original designs and ideas. But where progressive schools use the tools as one of many activities in which the teacher plays a major role, Montessori schools put the teacher in the background while the didactic teaching materials do much of the work...
...would brook no challenges. A year ago, when Swiss Theologian Hans Küng spoke to Catholics all over the U.S. on reform in the church, conservative Cardinal Mclntyre forbade him to talk at U.C.L.A. He does not like such liberal Catholic magazines as America, The Commonweal and Ave Maria, and so he has banned them from his archdiocesan seminary. Mclntyre was one of 19 cardinals who last year signed a statement protesting to the Vatican Council the "heretical methods"-such as the technique of form criticism, devised by German Protestant theologians-used by Catholic Biblical scholars...
...smart kick in the shins. Monaco's Princess Grace, along with Charlie Chaplin, his wife and his brood, fled for the exits. Aristotle Onassis and Rudolf Bing stayed on to applaud. The tumult raged for a full 30 minutes. Then at 2 a.m., the object of it all, Maria Callas, slipped out the stage door of the Paris Opera, ducked into her flower-strewn limousine, and purred off into the balmy Paris night...
Virtually every Jewish organization in the U.S. applauded the initial court decision on school prayer, while Roman Catholic opinion has shifted from open opposition to guarded approval. A new survey of diocesan papers by the Catholic weekly Ave Maria revealed that 35 have gone on record opposing any congressional action to overturn the court decisions, while only eight favor it; two years ago, a big majority of the same papers attacked the Supreme Court's ruling on the New York State Board of Regents' prayer. Meanwhile, the church leaders who oppose the court decisions are fewer, although they...