Word: rave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...educational critics has recently produced a flurry of books complaining that U.S. public schools stifle, rather than stimulate, the natural joy that children should find in learning. While these academic reformers differ considerably in their formulas for improvement, they do have one big bond in common: each has written rave reviews urging the public to read the books of the others...
...Science Monitor. Coles exalted the Kozol and Friedenberg books in reviews for the New York Times. Friedenberg, in turn, gushed over Kozol's writing in the Saturday Review. Kohl, who included a short story by Kozol in an anthology called The Age of Complexity, is writing a Holt rave for the New York Review of Books...
...enough to challenge the resources of any normal theatrical troupe. Yet none of the principal actors of the National Theater of the Deaf utters a word, and only one of them can hear. No matter; the pacing and performance are unmistakably professional, and the critical notices are in the rave category. Currently on a six-week tour of 18 Northeastern cities, the company opened at Manhattan's Hunter College Playhouse last week to tumultuous applause...
...only 17 rival hurlers have lasted nine innings against them-and three of those lost. The potent hitting also helps to cancel out a couple of Cardinal weaknesses. The No. 1 team in the National League ranks No. 2 in committing errors afield. Nor is their pitching much to rave about. No St. Louis starter...
Usually Dave McClelland's cartoons are about the only thin to rave about, but this issue manages without him. Jonathan Cerf's full-spread cover would make a fairly sophisticated cover for the New Yorker--if he could draw an Ibis; Henry Beard's Arab-fish cartoon is reasonably amusing--which is all that Beard ever attemtps to be. He is a master at plucking the boredom or inanity out of anything or anyone, and for that talent his "Vanitas" is worth reading...