Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great in painting, music, writing and scholarship." In routine matters, they did still better. Veterans and their wives settled down and became the generation to cut the wartime divorce rate in half, raise the birth rate 26.2% in a decade, demand that schools teach their Johnnies how to read. Because unexpected millions of vets got to college, a college education became a near-necessity for their youngsters...
...stiff portraits looked down upon them, the two Prime Ministers fell all over themselves singing the blessings of freedom. "Something big is happening in Africa," said Nehru, playing his role as Big Brother of anticolonialism. Then Nkrumah rose to say that as a student in the U.S., he had read Nehru's books and asked himself, "Why isn't that man in Africa?" He called Ghana "the springboard for the final liberation of the African continent . . . Africa," he cried, "must be free...
...only reason for studying a language, Conant observed, is to achieve "something approaching a mastery. And by this I mean the ability to read with ease a foreign newspaper and discuss it intelligently with a native of the country in question . . . This degree of mastery . . . cannot be reached in two years." Conant's recommendations: the most able scholars-at least the top 15% of U.S. high school students-should take four years of one language. Further, they should be urged to elect three years of another language, with the assumption that they will continue study of the second language...
There are few genuine anarchists around these days, but those of them who happen to read Lady L. will be as infuriated as if a king, marked for assassination, caught their homemade bomb and threw it back at them. French Novelist Romain Gary, who wrote one of the best and most serious novels of 1958 in The Roots of Heaven, has turned out what is bound to be one of the most urbanely amusing novels of 1959. The Roots of Heaven was a poetic last stand in the name of freedom. Lady L. is for freedom, too-freedom from people...
Thanks in part to Rutherford (credited with having been first to split the atom), the world has had cause to take a long, hard, wary look at the scientist. This has impelled the publishers to reissue their Snow of yesteryear, and it can be read today not only as a good, plain narrative (Snow's later Strangers and Brothers series testifies to his skill), but as an insider's account of just how it feels to be an inmate of science's glass menagerie...