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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past, was kicked out the door of the little red schoolhouse in the mid '20s. New research-especially on eye movements and on the psychology of learning-convinced educators that there was a better way of teaching reading. It was learned that the mature reader does not spell his way through words, letter by letter, but reads by phrases. Besides, educators found that an exclusive diet of phonics bored children and produced slow, laborious readers. So they went overboard for the word-memory system, which they called...
...walked to greater heights than any man before. Tenzing had won the chance to climb Everest by being the gamest and surest of the bellows-chested Sherpa tribesmen who lugged packs for sahibs scrambling up Himalayan peaks. But people were not sure of his nationality, or even how to spell his name. Today, this Nepal-born mountaineer is a sort of Asian Lindbergh, hailed by millions in the East as a heroic symbol of their true capabilities, and worshiped by many as the Lord Buddha reincarnated. He owns a race horse and receives the public at a smart new house...
...haste the entire fight," wrote Boston Record Columnist Dave Egan. Added the New York Daily Mirror's Dan Parker: "All Nova showed against the champ was timidity. The fight was . . . an utter stinker ... As to the 'cosmic punch,' Lou doesn't know how to spell. The 's' doesn't belong in the word...
...Cellar. A grandson of Scholar Samuel Eliot, Morison had his tory virtually thrust upon him. The family house on Brimmer Street, where he still lives, was a rendezvous for Boston's great, and the family archives were a source library in themselves. At Harvard Morison fell under the spell of Charles Haskins, Edward Channing and Albert Bushnell Hart. He wrote his first book, Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, partly from the boxes of letters stored in the family wine cellar. But aside from the influence of his teachers and ancestors, there was also his love...
...less lyrical than it is sensual, Pam and The Groper's love-making has a vernal, childlike candor about it that soars above the sordid. Pam's pregnancy and a call from the draft board break the spell but weld the couple in marriage and newfound maturity. Next of kin in mood, manner and appeal to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, The Young Lovers uses a breezy class-of-'55 lingo to shine up the ancient story of boy-mates-girl. Author Halevy, a 35-year-old New Yorker, scores his first...