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...Hiroshi Oe, 53, a distinguished, Shinto-influenced modernist, is represented by a new balconied suburban high school, plus a $745,000, six-story cultural hall ("Almost like a dream girl," says Kane ko. "I've fallen head over heels...
Although their diction ranges from the heavily eloquent ("What is the Badge of Courage? /It's sweat and blood and tears," and "Our toll is written in history's scroll / In bright, bright lines of red.") to the quasilyrical ("Lay the green sod oe'r me"), Sadler's words are united by the common theme of self-congratulation. Sometimes they approach the sickness of Teen Angel as in Trooper's Lament where, "As he fell through the night, / His 'chute all in flames, / A smile on his lips, / He cried out his girl's name," but generally these songs...
...moppets to master math (TIME, Jan. 31), uses a rain-bow-hued set of word charts. They give each of English's 20 vowel sounds a color of its own. Thus the u in up is printed in yellow, and so are the identical-sounding o in done, oe in does, oo in blood. The o in no is tan, and so are seven other spellings that sound the same, like the eau in beau and the ough in though. There are 27 colors for consonant sounds. The sound of n in no is lavender...
Hawaii's last monarch was Queen Liliuokalani, the buxom, strong-willed sister of Kalakaua, and, like her brother, a cultivated personage (poet, musician, composer of the famed Aloha Oe). Tough-minded Liliuokalani tried to overthrow the constitution as Hawaii plummeted into the depression that followed President McKinley's punishing tariff law on sugar. Around the rugged Queen grew secret societies such as the Annexation Club, and finally, in 1893, a Committee of Safety took possession of the government office building, formed a republic, applied to the U.S. for annexation. Five years later, to the sound...
...Education, the percentage of high-school students taking science and mathematics rose last fall. Biology (tenth grade) was up from 72.6% in 1954 to 75%, chemistry (eleventh grade) from 31.9% to 34.6%, and physics (twelfth grade) from 23.5% to 24.3%. But just in case anyone felt too encouraged, the OE added another figure: while the percentage of students taking algebra rose from a low of 24.6% in 1952 to 28.7% in 1956, the U.S. high school is still a long way from the 1910 figure...