Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started in 1970, more than 3,000,000 adults have achieved at least basic literacy; that number is expected to quintuple by 1980. To reach Brazil's 15 million illiterates (26% of the population), Mobral has established 67,000 centers throughout the country. Yet despite the scope of the program, the cost of making a student literate is only $9.33, about $25 less than a UNESCO-estimated average. "There is nothing very new in the didactic methods," explains Economist Mario Henrique Simonsen, head of Mobral. "The structure had to be simple, and it had to be cheap...
...scope of the repertoire is absolutely breath-taking. There are banjos and guitars sounding like railroad engines, a violin vibrating with an aching loneliness, and some of the happiest of this country's most characteristically American music. Almost miraculously the set avoids the hokier you'll-always-be-my-treasure doggerel and demonstrates the immense vitality and still-refreshing simplicity of songs far older than this generation...
...next year she hopes to have taken enough education courses to get her teaching certificate. "I don't want to teach philosophy any more," she says. "I'm hooked on the teaching of reading. Three years ago, my scope was the universe. I was going to change the whole world. Now I just want to teach children how to read. Three years ago I thought that what we needed was a complete upheaval in our government Now I see that it isn't possible. We just have to work for the best...
...scope and spontaneity of the relief effort has been astonishing. Nicaragua has received food from Europe, medical supplies from Latin America and aid of all kinds from the U.S. Government and private American contributors like Pittsburgh Pirates Outfielder Roberto Clemente, who died in the crash of a relief plane bound for Managua from Puerto Rico (see SPORT). In some cases, the U.S. effort has not been as effective or as widely noticed as it might be. While a 185-man Army medical team from the 21st Evacuation Hospital based in Fort Hood, Texas, operated in a barbed-wire-enclosed compound...
...John Keats (1963), Henri Troyat's of Tolstoy (1967) and Leon Edel's of Henry James of which the final volume appeared early in 1972. All are definitive studies and brilliant. Quentin Bell's new biography of the British feminist critic and novelist. Virginia Woolf, while lacking the voluminous scope of some recent works because it intentionally avoids a critical evaluation of her literary output, ranks among the best of the last decade's watershed biographies...