Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Rudolph Flesch (Why Johnny Can't Read) and John Keats both know: the quickest way to make a fast buck is to write a book criticizing education...
...after their walkout, the observers all returned to their seats, having read in advance the speech to be delivered by scholarly Edvard Kardelj, Tito's chief theoretician. To their dismay, Kardelj added some savage ad libs: "We cannot recognize anybody's right to decide what in our program is in the spirit of Marxism and what is not . . . We do not need any certificates on our Marxism-Leninism." Only the Pole joined in the applause. And Yugoslav trade union boss General Svetozar Vukmanovic-Tempo minced no words when asked who was interfering in Yugoslav affairs. "Who?" demanded General...
...officials had been waiting for half an hour, sweating in white wool wigs and red and black robes. The princess walked to the speaker's platform and eased into the bliss of an "air-conditioned" chair. While the pipes underneath blew cool air up around her, Margaret read the Queen's congratulations and her own on the new union. Prime Minister Sir Grantley Herbert Adams responded, and with this the federal legislature, elected March 25, was inaugurated, and the new nation, joining ten island governments, was in business...
Bundled up in a double-breasted blue suit over a long-sleeved blue pullover despite humid Texas temperatures in the 90s, owlish Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, 69, read his own verse to some 11,000 in Austin and Dallas, had some clipped words for the Waste Landish poets of the ''Beat Generation": "I have always felt about any form of existentialism the way James Thurber felt about the Civil War-I beg your pardon, the War Between the States-I expect to see it blow over. I don't see why a whole generation should...
Calculus for Kicks. Bronx High's 2,600 students-a third of them girls-are unashamedly unaverage; some take sly amusement in explaining to visitors that they read advanced calculus for kicks, in their spare time, and many of them are precociously sure where they are heading, e.g., "Harvard for a doctorate, then teach math." Marriage waylays most girls heading for graduate school, but a survey of both sexes a few years ago showed that 13% of the school's alumni had taken two or more years of graduate study. Not all Bronx High students go into science...