Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maria Goeppert Mayer, nuclear physicist, University of California at La Jolla Sc.D...
...latest, most preposterous beauty shop is a designer's powder-puffed version of what Pompeii would have looked like if Revlon had been running things before Vesuvius decided to end it all. Devised by President Charles Revson. the L. B. Mayer of the cosmetics business, the House of Revlon opened last week in the Gotham Hotel on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, "dedicated to the arts of beauty" and to the sales of the firm's products. It is also dedicated to the proposition that all women can be re-created equal...
...denied that Mayer has raised some good points. His observation that classes are even more culturally loaded than intelligence tests, his charge that the junior high school years are a needless waste, and his descriptions of the tyranny of text-book publishers and the inadequacy of current teacher training all make good sense...
...Mayer seems afraid or unwilling to come to any meaningful conclusions. In his envoi, all he can screw up his courage to say about America's messed-up school system is, "In a sense it is unfair for the communities to send teachers questing for excellence, with a yoicks and a tally ho and a drink at the end. . . In the effort to do their work better than they think they can, people acquire competence; and excellence is nothing more than the most precious by-product in the large-scale production of competence...
...Mayer is right, but only stating the obvious, when he says that ultimately the problem of education comes down to the teachers in the schools. But it shouldn't take 400-odd pages to demonstrate this concept and really very little else