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Whitby is proudly "a work school, not a play school," and in their uniform grey skirts and shorts the children at first seem unduly solemn. Silence fills the classrooms; tears and giggles are rare; even teachers speak in near whispers. The visitor is sure that something is drastically wrong. Actually, the children are absorbed in a series of graded "jobs" that each feels compelled to complete-on his own. With almost no visible goading, Whitby's kids learn numbers at three, write at four, read at five, parse sentences at seven. Whitby is at least two years ahead...
...function." From his Olympian vantage point, Columnist Walter Lippmann dispensed balm to a perturbed nation. Little countries such as Cuba, he assured his readers, "cannot pose a vital threat to the security of the United States, and we must not exaggerate their importance." The New York Times delivered a solemn editorial lecture: "History is not like a boxing match or a baseball game. It flows like a river. It is hard to be patient under such provocation and defeat as we have experienced. Yet it is the mark of true strength to take both defeat and victory...
...Late Benjamin Franklin" there occurs the following reminiscence: "When I was a child I had to boil soap, notwithstanding my father was wealthy, and I had to get up early and study geometry at breakfast, and peddle my own poetry and do everything just as Franklin did, in the solemn hope that I would be a Franklin some day. And here...
Taking off almost as much paint as he put on, Hofmann managed to achieve the magic he wanted. What could have been static and graceless chunks gradually assume life, like slow-motion dancers in a solemn ballet...
Last week, in solemn ritual, a record 658 berobed M.A.s padded into Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre and presented ballots in Latin for the now hotly desired chair of professor artis poeticae. The winner: Robertum R. Graves, with 329 votes. Enid Starkie finished last with 96 votes, a bitter reminder that kingmakers never become kings. Hearing the news in Madrid, Winner Graves composed a victory communique in three minutes flat...