Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill.: "How free and wide-ranging should your curriculum be? Not nearly as free and loose as it has become under the pressures of a consumer approach to public education." It is high time "we make the raw assumption that it is the mind of the student with which the school is most concerned" and not with his adjustment to society. "The schools are not in business to teach anything to anyone or everything to everyone. They are not to be confused . . . with shopping centers. We do not, I hope, put signs...
...pretend to know all the answers. We are of one mind, however, in believing that Christian people have an especial responsibility for the solution of our racial problems and that if, as Christians, we sincerely seek to understand and apply the teachings of Our Lord and Master we shall assuredly find the answer . . . We do believe that all Americans, whether black or white, have a right to the full privileges of first-class citizenship. To suggest that a recognition of the rights of Negroes to the full privileges of American citizenship, and to such necessary contacts as might follow, would...
...solid calendar of basketball games, boxing matches and fencing competitions. Neither the appreciative spectators, gazing at the soaring, concrete-ribbed dome free of any obstructing pillars, nor the art critics, who praised it as "a masterpiece of creative genius ... perfection," would believe that Nervi had no esthetic scheme in mind. But it was a fact that he had merely worked out an orderly system for transmitting the flow of the great dome's stress along the most logical and economical lines...
...Yugoslavia. Rebecca West once invited a professor who lived in a smaller town to come to Belgrade. He declined, saying: "Thank you very much, but I am like Hamlet. I want very much to go to Belgrade, but I cannot make up my mind." Most Shakespearean producers, critics and audiences have agreed with this point of view, complains Author West. Hamlet, they say, is the most fascinating of plays-and Hamlet the most irresolute of princes. But, Author West suggests, how about taking another look at Shakespeare's text? Instead of seeming an ambivalent neurotic with a pure heart...
With this aim in mind, Putzi excitedly told Adolf about the hypnotic effect of college cheering sections at U.S. football games and, at the piano, demonstrated the "buoyant beat" of U.S. brass bands. Recalls Putzi: "I had Hitler fairly shouting with enthusiasm. 'That's it, Hanfstaengl, that is what we need for the movement, marvelous,' and he pranced up and down the room like a drum majorette." The "Rah, rah, rah!" refrain of Harvardmen, by Putzi's account, became the thunderous "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" of the Brownshirt demonstrations. Storm Trooper bands blared their goose-step...