Word: portion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...education demands the interaction of the student with the community, effected through school field trips and parental visits and interest in the school. In community, after community, parents have had to take a stand where schools themselves have failed to provide some facet of educational experience that the intelligent portion of a locality strongly felt was worthwhile...
These are, of course, extreme examples. But this interdependence easily fosters such unhappy incidents, and a constant vigil on the part of both school authorities and the intelligent portion of the parental community is necessary to keep public education on a sane and salutary keel. Parents in Syosset, New York, an idyllic little community on Long Island, discovered that the glee club director of one school was teaching his singers patriotic songs of the United States, England, France, and Russia--the last a song written nine years before by a Soviet composer. They accused him of being unpatrioic...
...interesting comparison presents itself between the Newton and the Cambridge School Committees. The Newton board is composed of specimens of the highest intelligence in the city; the Cambridge board--with a few notable exceptions is representative of the less intelligent portion of the city. Both these groups are quasi-cliques; but the Newton committee has the full support of the community while the Cambridge board generally manages to create a rift with each important move it makes: the educated, PTA-supporting citizens on one side; the less well educated, anti-PTA citizens on the other...
While he disdained use of pickle green, Davis did put Heinz's "57" into his work, in disguise. In the lower left portion there is a scrambled 1957, thus: 1922. This, says Davis, represents "the year it was painted, the year the building went up, and 57 Varieties." In place against its white plastic panel background, the mural is what Architect Bunshaft calls "a real head-snapper." Says pleased Preserver Heinz: "Exactly what we wanted. It gives vitality to the whole room...
...Iran's shores in the gulf. Indiana Standard agreed to pay 75% of profits to Iran, plus a $25 million bonus, and to spend $82 million in exploration and development over the next twelve years. If no oil is found, Indiana will turn over half of the unspent portion of the $82 million to Iran...