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...instant critical and popular smash when it opened in April 1949, it swept the Tony awards, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and ran for a then-extraordinary five years. For a generation of postwar theatergoers, it was cherished like almost no other American musical. In my own parents??? rather sparse record collection, it was the one original cast album that got played over and over - the Broadway show music that provided the soundtrack of my childhood...
...talk about themselves provides some insights about their parents too. Rob Ragasa, 31, a Filipino-American high school teacher raised in New Jersey, reflects on how his parents???conservative as they always seemed to him?had to be pretty daring to immigrate. "They had to come here and struggle. They had to be the first," he says, then pauses for a moment. "Maybe we are like our parents," he adds finally. "We are going to be pioneers too." And maybe they already...
...late 1950s the anthropological team of Louis and Mary Leakey?Richard's parents???began finding, at Olduvai Gorge and other East African sites, remains similar to those uncovered by Broom. They produced convincing evidence that the massive-jawed robustus, which weighed 45 to 67.5 kg. (100 to 150 lb.), existed in the region nearly 2 million years ago. In the same deposits, the Leakeys also discovered pebbles chipped to form sharp-edged implements?evidence that even so far back, man's ancestors knew how to make tools...
...Many parents???both black and white?believe that forced busing is futile unless it can be demonstrated to benefit black children. Some blacks consider it demeaning to pursue whites farther and farther out into the suburbs. On the other hand, long experience has shown that predominantly black schools in many instances are shortchanged by white-dominated school boards. Ghetto schools frequently are badly equipped and poorly maintained, have fewer textbooks and less experienced teachers because more senior teachers transfer to middle-class schools. Still, there is no conclusive evidence, despite hundreds of studies, that desegregation improves the school achievement...
...didn't know they had any." It also tapped a flood of Jewish cash. Financial support for Israel, always strong, crested to a new high: the 750 Jewish families of Charleston, S.C., alone raised a remarkable $250,000 ?nearly $100 per person. Young people?and sometimes their parents???suddenly found themselves on jets to Israel, ready to fight, or at least to take the soldiers' places in the kibbutzim...