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Word: medievales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The issue started to bubble quietly in 1951 when the Communists imported an Italian named Pacifico Montanari to reform the republic's schools. Montanari, 36, is an ardent apostle of Celestin Freinet, a freewheeling French innovator who claims non-Freinet schools teach by the medieval notion of rigid authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Defiant Abbess | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

In the face of such an uprising, Progressivite Montanari hustled abroad, left Party-lining Foreign Minister Gino Giacomini to cope with mutinous parents, including many loyal Communists. Said Giacomini soothingly: "We don't want to persecute anyone, certainly not dear Mother Veronica." At week's end, the closing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Defiant Abbess | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

Grandfather Was Naughty. Bluebeard, the wife killer that Hollywood and the children know, is only a legend; but the real Bluebeard of Brittany-one Baron Gilles de Rais-lived all too real a life five centuries ago in the castle of Tiffauges. His parents died before he was twelve, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Inside the Castle | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

"Medieval Spain had been the most tolerant land in Europe. There, Christian, Mohammedan and Jew had lived side by side in peace and, sometimes, in the closest friendship. Christian had fought Christian in alliance with Mohammedan. The proudest Christian families in Spain had intermarried with Jews; and Hebrew blood flowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

Drastically One-Sided. One reason why the Christian idea of education has been so rarely realized, said William Pollard, executive director of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies and an ordained Episcopal priest, is that the modern Western world has focused on its Greco-Roman heritage to the almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Find the Balance | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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