Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senator, the shuttle Discovery's primary task is to launch two satellites. The first worked, but a military communications satellite launched Saturday suffered an apparent power failure and drifted uselessly in space. The astronauts are also expected to spend time toying around. To demonstrate the laws of physics to schoolchildren, they will be videotaped playing with such dime-store goodies as yo-yos, spinning tops, a Slinky and a windup mouse...
...restate the facts about apartheid and refuge the illogic of the University's rhetorical evasions, our words cease to "express the offense, fail to communicate the ongoing demolition of a people. As South African police set dogs loose on schoolchildren and as Black activists get taken away in the middle of the night, we at Harvard get bogged down in rhetorical diversions, "progress" reports, committee minutes, media ploys, the whole debilitating bureaucratization of the debate. The issue loses its moral cogency...
...played to the largest single Harvard audience ever, followed by a sell-out command performance at the ART. The company's expansion from a dance company giving demonstration sessions at area schools to a full-time teaching program was encouraged in particular by its reception from several hundred Cambridge schoolchildren who were invited to the performances. "There was such positive reinforcement from the teachers and administration that I thought I'd stay on and choreograph on a serious level with undergraduates, says Peck...
...nearly three-quarters of a century, the heavy oak drawers and musty, dog- eared cards of the New York Public Library's catalog room were the index to knowledge for countless scholars and schoolchildren. Last month, however, the card catalog served up its last title, author and book number. As part of the main library's $45 million face-lifting, the catalog room is being computerized, its 8,973 drawers and 10 million cards replaced by a central memory bank and 50 low-slung terminals. Instead of thumbing through stacks of 3-by-5 cards in search of a book...
...surrogate parents but state officials, who must respect the pupils' general right to protection under the Fourth Amendment. Nevertheless, wrote White, "school disorder has often taken particularly ugly forms: drug use and violent crime . . . have become major social problems." Thus a "proper educational environment requires close supervision of schoolchildren," along with "a certain degree of flexibility in school disciplinary procedures." The key, White declared, is to strike a "balance" between the schoolchild's right to some privacy and the school's need to keep order...