Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tennis is in a poor state. With the single exception of Cincinnati's crew-cut Tony Trabert, who turned pro in 1955, the U.S. has not produced a tennis star of consistent world championship caliber since Pancho Gonzales began to play for pay in 1949. Furthermore, the raids of Pro Promoter Jack Kramer on Australia's crack performers have lopped off amateur stars as fast as they emerged. Three years ago an erratic, second-string southpaw named Neale Fraser was ranked well behind Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, was later overshadowed by Mai Anderson and Ashley Cooper...
...this reasoning, all men working at full throttle are "gifted." In a status-conscious nation, the idea is sometimes hard to get across. Conant's transmitter: the "comprehensive" high school, a social melting pot throwing rich and poor, dull and bright together. In ideal form, thinks Conant, it should give every kind of student as good an education as he might get in a school designed just...
...home and school. With his wiggly blocks and foolish questions. the guidance man strikes some parents as a dangerous bore: George will go to Harvard no matter his score. Let George do it-if he can. Guidance counselors are after bigger game: the brainy boy from a culture-poor family who always thought he was "dumb," the bright laggard who needs to be prodded. To Conant. guidance is "the keystone of the arch of public education...
...Scottish coasts and became the terror of the British Isles. After more than a year, Jones found a ship in which he could, as he put it, "go in harm's way": Le Due de Duras, a twelve-year-old East Indiaman renamed Bonhomme Richard after the Poor Richard of his friend Benjamin Franklin...
...villagers are not only poor, they are refugees from Turkish Anatolia. They are superstitious, backbiting and Christian to the point of worshiping a mermaid Madonna whom a passing fisherman has painted on a wall of the local church. Their life comes from the sea, and it is the sea that dominates the novel. The heroine worships it, the hero dies in it, and the plain villagers are bounded by it as their neighbors are bounded by olive groves. The young men may lust for Smaragthi. but they lust even more for the sea and the role of boat...