Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow last week, the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva published an interim look at the work of the State Spelling Commission, which is preparing a new report on language reform to be issued next year. The major drive will be against useless double letters in Russian words; thus kommunist will become komunist, appetit, apetit, and so on. Of 1,200 Russian words containing double letters, only twelve will be retained. Among them: Russia and other proper names. The soft sign following sibilants at the end of words will disappear, as did the hard sign following consonants, and 16 rules of hyphenation...
...Reform Talk. The physicians placed the blame squarely on Sweden's schools, where sex education starts in the first grade, pointing out that young minds -unless taught differently-can confuse instruction with encouragement. Arguing that "chastity in no way is harmful to health," the doctors declared that "monogamous marriage [with] common responsibility for the children, is the natural order of life." In sum, the doctors urged schools to teach "what is right and wrong...
...liver perked up after a fortnight, and his wife, Farah Diba, 25, came on down from Innsbruck, where she had been skiing since the Olympics. Then they tooled into Rome where Fair Farah and the monarch, who had been working so hard at his land-and government-reform programs that his doctors had ordered a vacation, settled into the Iranian embassy for a four-day stay before flying home after an absence of four weeks...
Teaching, Not Research. Since all this seems too good to change, Swarthmore is slow to try curriculum "reform." As an odd result, it still lacks sociology and anthropology departments, gives no credit courses in applied art, music or drama, although it throbs with extracurricular creativity. Violently antivocational, the college rejects early specialization even though most students go on to graduate school...
...possible, however, to satisfy all of the requirements which that program imposed with courses which cannot possibly achieve any of the objectives which the committee originally set forth. Either the program is in desperate need of reform or the original objectives were not worth pursuing...