Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is, and should be," trumpeted Giuseppe Verdi, "only one kind of music pleasing to Italian ears-the music of guns! I would not write a note for all the gold in the world: I should feel immense remorse for using up music paper, which is so good for making cartridges." The declaration, prompted by the news of the 1848 rebellion against the Austrians, who were then ruling most of Italy, is indicative of the flaming patriotism that consumed the composer's early life and work. He was then 35 and had already written twelve operas, most of them...
...told as a grab bag of gleanings from Teacher Barrett's mailbox, blackboard, wastebasket and students' schoolwork. Teachers chuckle in recognition at the memos Miss Barrett receives, such as one beginning: "Please disregard the following," and at the kids' comments, such as a boy's note explaining his failure to turn in homework: "My dog pead on it." Teachers everywhere seem to have kids as sniggery as those of Miss Barrett's, who is advised by a veteran teacher: "Never give a lesson on lie and lay" and never say "the word frigate...
Many teachers across the U.S. feel that Up the Down Staircase effectively reinforces their own desire to reach lost children. They are moved by the boy who explains in a note to Miss Barrett, signed only "Me," why he may drop out of school: "I'm nobody especial so nobody knows me, maybe I'll be somebody with a job." Miss Kaufman contends in the book that there is only one consolation for a teacher's many agonies: "To make a permanent difference to at least one child." Her teacher-readers respond with a heartfelt amen...
Meanwhile, commentators will be able to note that Robert Kennedy will be snagging on the shoals and stubbing his toes on the rocks of New York politics--and so, supposedly, will be unable to mount a Presidential drive for want of a secure "home base." It is true that the junior Senator will probably not be able to name the Democratic candidate for Governor, who has an excellent chance for defeating Nelson Rockefeller this fall; or choose the man who should fail miserably to defeat Senator Jacob Javits in 1968; or select the Democrat...
...fascinating to note how this cultural isolation is still reinforced by the Chinese writing system. Because it uses ideographic characters, it can not easily take in foreign words by sound but only by representing the foreign ideas in Chinese characters, yet the Chinese characters have their own meaning already. Our current research finds that foreign ideas have come into Chinese most easily when the Chinese have already had the same general idea. The writing system makes for continuity and inertia in Chinese ways. Unlike Japan, Korea, or Vietnam, who all had a phonetic writing system combined with Chinese characters...