Word: primered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...readers for Grades 1 through 6, the committee filed a complaint with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The complaint alleges, among other charges, that 80% of the leading characters in the reading series are boys or men, that the pronoun "she" is not introduced in the pre-primer series until the third volume, that women are "portrayed predominately as mothers, nurses, librarians, storekeepers...
While adults were worrying about the effect of male-chauvinist reading on their offspring, the children themselves, some of them anyway, seem already to have absorbed the feminist lesson despite their biased primers. The first-grade daughter of a Berkeley family in which husband and wife share the housework recently noticed, while looking at her primer, a picture of a mother cooking and a daddy reading the paper. "Why is she working and he's just sitting there?" the girl asked. Then she looked again and said: "I know. It must be her week to cook...
...this issue, the Dump Truck tries to cover the complicated world of Harvard investments. Crimson President Daniel Swanson first reflects on the Mass Hall take-over, which took place one year ago today. Then for the beginning student of Harvard's money management, Peter Shapiro offers a helpful primer entitled What To Do With A Zillion Dollars...
Thomson described yesterday statement as a "primer for other expressions of opposition by various groups of individual here at Harvard and throughout the nation...
...paper on which were laid stones, labeled A, B, X and Y, with such observations written below as "If X is between A and B, A and B are not identical." What, one wonders, are such minimalities doing in an art gallery rather than a child's primer of logic? Gallery space is not, in fact, necessary: one of Robert Barry's conceptual efforts required that the door of his gallery be locked and adorned with this notice: "For the exhibition, the gallery will be closed...