Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bargain Basements. To Lynd, it seems obvious that today's schoolchildren lack culture, and that it is due to the lack of culture in their teachers who are trained by the professional schools to treasure "enriched teaching" and "social orientation" more than the subjects they teach. Says Lynd: "The faculties who operate these intellectual bargain basements are the men who are quietly running the educational program in your school. It is more than a possibility that they are also running intelligent and literate young people right out of public education...
Meals & Mopes. The domain he inherited includes five high schools, eleven junior high schools, 63 elementary schools, a special school for crippled children. It is a $40 million domain that comes alive each morning with the shouts and cries of 56,000 schoolchildren flooding through its classrooms. On the surface it is a casual world of blue jeans and T-shirts, sweaters & skirts, bobby-sox and loafers, of jalopies, motor-scooters, bikes, and a litter of candy-wrappers inside almost every desk. Pupils call each other "meal" or "mope," .tell each other not to be a "squeegie" or a "sizzle...
Healy evoked for posterity a shadowy host of 19th Century greats. His portraits, reproduced in-textbooks across the land, had given successive generations of U.S. schoolchildren a notion of what Healy's sitters looked like, but not, necessarily, of what they were like...
Progressive schoolchildren of seven are sometimes heard to mourn their lost youth. Artistically they are often in a state of decline, having begun making an effort to paint neatly and representationally instead of splashing about. Their bumbling attempts to create intelligible pictures are rarely so fine and free as the fruits of innocence. Luckily Painter Hiroshi Nishida is only six, but his first one-man show, scheduled to open in a Tokyo gallery this week, may well be his last...
...Matsui did rebuild, but he was not to remain Hiroshima's leading printer of beer and sake labels, government securities, and Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere bonds. In the time of Hiroshima's agony he had found a new work. One day he noticed five small schoolchildren, dressed in rags and sitting on boxes in the midst of the rubble. In front of them, their teacher was drawing kana characters (syllable symbols) with a charcoal stick on a piece of slate. The sight changed Matsui's plans instantly. "Kore da!" he said to himself. "This...