Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Acheson, brown-suited and carefully brushed, let photographers swirl and flash around him. Then for an hour he held forth. Quickly he read through the treaty's 14 articles. Essentially, the parties to the pact agreed that...
...their home in Erie, Pa. they bought a phonograph and taught sons Peter and Lewis (Lewis is now 28 and a composer-teacher at the University of Texas) to listen to records. Says Peter: "Sounds corny, but I always liked Beethoven." He was set to studying sight-reading at seven, could read music before he could play an instrument, still plays "terrible piano." At 17, he went to Ohio's Oberlin Conservatory, then after a spell in the Air Force, took his degrees (including a Ph.D.) at Rochester's Eastman School of Music...
...Harrell doesn't think he can change all that, but at least he can do something for the kids that reach Edison. Joe sees the job at Edison (and at the Benito Juarez school, of which he is also principal) as more than just teaching boys & girls to read & write. One of the extracurricular activities Joe started as soon as he realized that the cost of soap was largely responsible for the grimy looks of his students: practical soapmaking, out of lye and cooking fat brought from home...
...explain why I am mentioning George Rinehart's "Boy Meets Girl" first. It is not the best item in Signature, nor is it the worst. But for awhile it gave me a hard time. I started to read: "Behold! For this is that of Beowulf, of Ecgtheow the son. May his hair grow long in heaven...
...hair grow long in hell, said I; here's another "think piece." But I continued to read with an open mind. It didn't make much sense--in fact, I had just decided to dismember it, and was tucking the napkin under my chin, when I happened to notice the title. "Boy Meets Girl." Then it occurred to me that in each of the story's four scenes a Boy had met a Girl, and I felt like Balboa. Which goes to show that one ought to read titles more carefully. "Boy Meets Girl" (From Beowulf to the Present...