Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remote areas, they often had to make the clothes they wore, the candles they burned and even the bullets they used to drive off marauding bands of Bushmen. They built their own sturdy homes, used the Bible -the only book they had-to teach their children how to read. When they saw their neighbors, it was usually when they rode to worship at the nearest church, often a two-day journey from their farm. There was no shortage of labor, however. Hottentots and imported East Indian slaves were easy to come by and inexpensive to maintain. Gradually, the Boer farmer...
...English-language press, which has somehow managed to maintain a tradition of obstinate opposition to the racist pattern, but the attacks are losing their sting. Their readers, impressed by Verwoerd's successful pacification of the country since the Sharpeville massacre of 1960, no longer want to read about the injustices of his methods...
...letter read from the pulpits of his diocese of Nueve de Julio, Bishop Antonio Quarracino stressed that there were no ties whatsoever between the church and the new regime. "The church," he said, "does not seek privileges or political tasks. It demands only liberty in exercising its mission." A few days later, Bishop Jerónimo Podesta, 46, leader of Buenos Aires' diocese of Avellaneda (pop. 1,200,000), went on record in the Buenos Aires magazine Primera Plana. "The church," he noted, "wants to serve the modern world, and this does not mean to serve such and such...
...prevalent in folk music (for example, the notes sounded by the five black keys on the piano), Kodály's method uses games and pictures to introduce painlessly the basic concepts of musical structure and notation. The result is that thousands of students learn to read com plex scores as easily as a column of figures by the time they reach the eighth grade. Best of all, says Kodály, the children become skillful performers on "a beautiful musical instrument"-the hu man voice. He believes that singing not only provides "the best foundation of musicality...
...educated Mormons who might otherwise fall by the wayside within the community of Saints. Its tone contrasts sharply with that of the vast array of official Mormon publications-ranging from Salt Lake City's daily Deseret News to the Relief Society Magazine, a women's monthly-which read like house organs and propagate what one Dialogue editor calls "the myth of the unruffled Mormon," impervious to doubt. In reality, argues Dialogue's book-review editor, Richard L. Bushman, a history professor at Brigham Young University, plenty of young Mormons "have become estranged from the church for intellectual...