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...Managing Editor of TIME is normally encouraged to pass his pencil over this column on its way to press. But this week he was not invited-for the quite special reason that the column is largely about...
...streets during the trial. Here Kluger (author of last year's widely praised Simple Justice, an account of the Supreme Court's 1954 anti-segregation decision) borrows from history by making inventive use of the Leo Frank case. Frank was an Atlanta Jew - the manager of a pencil factory - who in 1913 was convicted of murdering a young female employee...
...merit; and it is doubtless a boon to the test authors, evaluators and proctors who regularly enjoy its moonlighting income. But it has surely demeaned education and caused widespread cynicism among students. Why indeed should pupils learn to write when the key to success is found in filling in pencil lines, rather than composing anything of originality...
Forty years earlier in his career, Matisse had demonstrated, with his big canvases of dancing figures, that he was a master of energetic motion. There is a clear difference, though, between the degree of energy that a pencil or brush can express and the kind of incisive force that the bite of his scissors gave to Matisse's later image of a figure in ecstatic movement, La Danseuse, 1949. The directness of such a cut-out could not be repeated in paint. No drawn profile could approach the strictness of a cut edge, and the paper...
Four years ago, she was considered "beyond help." Now she is making progress in a regular class. Lisa, 7, a slight hydrocephalic child, practiced her addition near by. When she first came to Trotter last year, she could not even hold a pencil. "If they were stuck in a hole somewhere, there's no way they could ever make it," says Barbara Fagone, who has been teaching handicapped children in her regular class for three years. How do her normal students react? "We found out last year that they're curious for exactly 20 minutes. Then...