Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will convoke them. I am not so naive as to believe that it will be easy to do. In any case, the Assembly must announce its intentions very quickly. If not, it will collapse." Presumably, the Etats Généraux would then abolish the National Assembly and rule in its stead-though Poujade is characteristically vague about details...
...College used to believe that there was something inevitable about "the flames of Holoyoke House." The Administration, it was said, had a rule providing that instructors could not return exam books to their authors--that the books must be kept for a certain length of time and then destroyed. Two years ago, however, an enterprising University Hall secretary dug through the archives, discovered that there was no such rule after all, and thus deprived Faculty members of their standard excuse for not handing back the blue books...
Thus Japan's primitive folk religion of nature gods and divine ancestors is linked in its beginnings with the Japanese throne. The result was Shinto, the Way of the Gods-a lockstep of temporal rule and religion, more efficient perhaps than any since ancient Sparta. After World...
Abdominal Heroism. At the beginning of World War II, Shinto was both a doctrine and a patriotic duty. Its symbol was the Emperor, who was not actually worshiped (though his ancestors were), but revered for his divine descent and the heavenly sanction of his rule. The Emperor's picture in government buildings was an object of veneration; a classic tradition tells of a schoolboy who, when his school caught fire, rolled up the picture, slashed open his belly, thrust it inside and struggled through the flames to die a hero's death outside. Even as late...
Since automatic promotion is pretty much the rule, many classes are divided into fast and slow groups. The bright use the same primers as the slow, but they are encouraged to supplement their reading with other books. At the third grade, says Assistant Superintendent William Kottmeyer of St. Louis, comes "the great divide." After that, the slow and the bright get the same texts in arithmetic, geography and history. Unless a school system has a most elaborate remedial reading program, the whole class could well be held to the pace of the slow...