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...celebrating the transcendent power of communist ideology, the impending heaven of world socialism and the godlike benignity of its father, Lenin's successor, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, the man of steel. And like the traditional icons of Christ and the saints it replaced, the stuff was omnipresent. No square or schoolroom in Russia lacked its image of Stalin pointing to the future...
...cloudy winter afternoon, Florann Greenberg, a teacher at P.S. 14 in New York City, noticed that her first-grade class was growing fidgety. One girl, dropping all pretense of work, stared at the snow falling outside the schoolroom windows. Annoyed, Greenberg asked her, "Haven't you seen snow before?" The girl whispered, "No." Her classmates began shaking their heads. Then it dawned on Greenberg: of course these children had never seen snow; almost all were immigrants from Colombia and the Dominican Republic. Immediately, she changed the lesson plan. New topic: What is snow? How is it formed...
Gilda steered her love child into the teaching profession, but the pull of the '60s was too strong to keep Anita in the schoolroom for long. She spent a year in Paris clipping newspapers for the International Herald Tribune, another year in Geneva working for the United Nations, and then hit what she calls the hippie trail. She boarded a boat for Tahiti, passed through New Hebrides and New Caledonia on her way to Australia, and ended up in Johannesburg (by way of Madagascar and Mauritius). There she ran afoul of the laws of apartheid by going to a jazz...
...might change yet again), Caterpillar (because you need heavy equipment to build infrastructure), Paramount Communications (because of its huge textbook operation) and a zillion others -- may still be good buys. But I've never met anyone who got rich in the '60s buying shares in "the company that makes schoolroom desks," which was one of the plays after Kennedy got elected; and while I believe Clinton will be far more the education President than Bush, I am not on my hands and knees under a kid's desk trying to make out the name of its manufacturer. (I got somebody...
What file readers discover is just how pervasive the network of betrayal was. Stasi tentacles extended into the schoolroom, the pulpit, the bedroom, even the confessional: Roman Catholic authorities are investigating indications that penitents' confessions reached the Stasi through hidden microphones or corrupted priests. Stasi technicians bugged homes, telephones, cars and seats in concert halls. The Stasi's "Section 8" dealt with children, requiring principals of every school in the country to keep a file of "dangerous persons" in their classrooms. Teachers filled out forms on "conspicuous" children, some as young as 9, who expressed views critical of the state...