Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...camel across Morocco's stony plains and into the Atlas Mountains. Swathed in a burnoose, Legrand often camped with Berbers, used them as models for such prophets as Joshua and Jeremiah (see cut). Once in his travels, he says, a Berber witch whose advances he repulsed put a spell on his drawing hand, made it swell to the size of a melon. "A native doctor took the spell away," he says. "Allah be praised...
When the average man gets a sneezing spell, a stuffed-up head and a runny nose, he thinks he has a cold. If he takes antihistamine tablets, and his sneezing and stuffiness stop, he thinks that the anti-histaminic has "cured his cold." Not necessarily, says the American Medical Association...
...author's skillful use of small details also adds interest to the latter parts of the book. For example, in Arizona Mitchell Hickok has been praised for spelling names correctly, a traditional tenet of accurate journalism. But when Mitch is interviewed by New York reporters, they spell his name wrong...
...devices called 'standardized tests' . . . that give us objective evidence of effectiveness in teaching . . . When these tests have been given in Denver, they have shown definitely that we are not 'neglecting the three Rs.' " But, says he, "if the child is taught only to read and spell, the schools have not done their job. The twig must be bent to democratic living." "Hell," declared easygoing, pipe-smoking Assistant Superintendent Hinderman, "nothing has been taken away from the schools, but a lot has been added. We can't have horse & buggy education in a hydrogen bomb...
...prince is just what romantic maidens pray for and the cruel stepmother is wicked enough to make Judith Anderson look like Pollyanna. These three characters are drawn in an attempt at literal likeness that the best technique of animation never brings off without a certain stiffness. Nonetheless, the spell is never broken. The rest of the human characters, including the sourpuss stepsisters, move flexibly in delightful caricature, and the animals are pure Disney...