Word: publically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diahann (pronounced Diane) Carroll has given a surprising amount of thought to what her public-private image should be. "The difficult, dangerous thing for a performer," she says, "is deciding, 'Just who am I?' It must come from living. What you are in life, you are onstage. Maybe a little less inhibited, but the same person." Daughter of a New York subway conductor, Diahann (born Carol Diahann Johnson) showed youthful musical talent, won a Metropolitan Opera scholarship at ten. "That lasted no more than a month," she says, "because I told my mother I wanted...
...Public-Private Image. If Eartha Kitt appears before her audiences as the feline temptress and Lena Home as the sophisticated lady with a past, Diahann is the ingenue of the trade-sweet but sexy, and eager to learn. When the soft blue lights came up on her last week, she tilted back the high-cheekboned, full-lipped face on the swan neck and gave out with a brassily exuberant Everything's Coming Up Roses. From that the voice could sink to a smoky purr in a slow Too Much in Love or take on a rasping burr...
...babies are born to Roman Catholic families. But parochial schools get no direct tax support: the First Amendment, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, forbids it. Catholic parents (as well as Protestant and Jewish parents who send their children to church schools) are taxed for public schools, while their own schools grow short of money, teachers, classrooms. What should Americans...
Moral Intelligence. For Catholics, switching to public schools is no answer, writes Jesuit McCluskey. U.S. public schools-partly, he says, because Catholics tried so hard to "de-Protestantize" them-have become secular institutions in which even the Bible is a prohibited document. To protect the rights of dissenters, the public schools no longer recognize extramundane authority; their ethos is a this-world "democratic humanism" that looks solely to society for its standards. "The public school," says McCluskey, "is less competent today to assume responsibility for moral and spiritual training than ever before...
...case, it cannot provide the collective training in supernatural awareness that Catholics and patrons of other church schools insist upon for their children. Not that the parochial school is an "all-week Sunday school." It covers the same academic ground as the public school, teaches religion formally for only brief periods (about 30 minutes daily in Catholic elementary schools). But the parochial school does exist primarily for one reason: "To develop the morally intelligent person." And so "the primacy of the spiritual" suffuses all subjects ("Faith is never departmental: all things fall within its purview"). "Christian or Christ-centered culture...