Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Relax. By the time Diahann entered New York University (to study sociology), she had decided that she wanted a show-business career after all, quit school, allowed herself a two-year trial period in which to find success or failure. She won $3,000 on a TV talent show, was booked by Broadway Impresario Lou Walters into his brassy Latin Quarter. Diahann was an instant hit, shared top billing with the changeable Christine Jorgensen, who taught Diahann how to bow like a lady ("Darling, like so . . ."). At 19 she drew raves as Ottilie (alias Violet), the naive young girl...
What the 18th century U.S. schoolboy beheld was a tiaraed bogeyman, whose heart appeared to mask Malice, Murder and Treachery. The caricature went undisputed. In the Protestant schools of the time, Roman Catholics were barred from teaching jobs. As Irish and German immigrants swelled the U.S. Catholic population, their bishops (in 1884) announced an urgent edict. Every parish priest must organize a parochial school; Catholic parents must send their children to such schools whenever possible...
Moral Intelligence. For Catholics, switching to public schools is no answer, writes Jesuit McCluskey. U.S. public schools-partly, he says, because Catholics tried so hard to "de-Protestantize" them-have become secular institutions in which even the Bible is a prohibited document. To protect the rights of dissenters, the public schools no longer recognize extramundane authority; their ethos is a this-world "democratic humanism" that looks solely to society for its standards. "The public school," says McCluskey, "is less competent today to assume responsibility for moral and spiritual training than ever before...
...case, it cannot provide the collective training in supernatural awareness that Catholics and patrons of other church schools insist upon for their children. Not that the parochial school is an "all-week Sunday school." It covers the same academic ground as the public school, teaches religion formally for only brief periods (about 30 minutes daily in Catholic elementary schools). But the parochial school does exist primarily for one reason: "To develop the morally intelligent person." And so "the primacy of the spiritual" suffuses all subjects ("Faith is never departmental: all things fall within its purview"). "Christian or Christ-centered culture...
Everybody agreed that James Worley, head of the English department at big (1,160 students) Fox Lane High School near Mount Kisco, N.Y., was just about the finest teacher they knew. And academic standards are high in the suburban Westchester County area, home of many a well-heeled Manhattan commuter with an eye on Harvard for his son. But last week able, balding Teacher Worley, 38, was fired. Reason: he refused to file lesson plans with the front office two weeks ahead of class...