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Trying to avoid offending anybody, the Regents adopted this "nondenominational" compromise: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country." Many school boards adopted the prayer. Normally it was spoken by the class in unison at the...
One song, however, succeeds. It succeeds so well, though, that it might pass for a legitimate pop song. "What Is Love" has a poignant melody, a properly restrained instrumental background, and really hilarious singing and recitation by Cerf and Mike Frith. The number truly embodies the spirit of the slow...
To the Top. Best of all is the effect on parents. Pryor insists that mothers come to class frequently and read aloud to the children. "It gets them into the habit so that they read to their children at home," he says. One mother was so mortified by her first...
Borges said that a recitation of poetry by a dinner guest at his father's house showed him that language was "not only an instrument of communication, but
Total Record. The novel deals with a Paris high school teacher, Pierre Vernier, who keeps a minute-by-minute log of all that happens in his eleventh-grade geography class in which his nephew Pierre Eller is a student. Vernier is obsessed by the need to record the total experience...