Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anxiety lest this approval be withheld. Riesman notes that from the walls of the inner-directed school, the ruins of Pompeii and the bust of Caesar often looked down-reminders of the past from which one learned the moral principles of history, part of the gyroscopic mechanism. These pressed stern standards upon a child -and many children were crushed. But the school for the other-directed has its own mural pressures. "The walls of the modern grade school are decorated with the paintings of the children or their montages from the class in social studies. Thus the competitive and contemporary...
...action. Blanshard formally asked Education Commissioner A. John Holden Jr. to notify all Vermont's schools that "the teaching of religion in public schools as part of the regular schedule of instruction" was unlawful and must be stopped. Last week Vermont's board of education issued a stern warning to all school superintendents to keep God out of the curriculum. Communities that disobeyed, the board hinted, might lose their annual grants of state...
Model City. Now that the power plant is operating, the work center of the Alcan project will shift from the mountainous interior to the coast town of Kitimat. Already the town is bustling and crowded. Workers live in huts, or in a dormitory improvised from the old stern-wheeler Delta King, which used to ply the tourist trade out of San Francisco. Alcan has elaborate plans for a model city (600 houses by next spring), with schools, a shopping center, streets and parkways where now there is only bush and muskeg. The plans are based on the confident expectation that...
...Gallant Rebel. Next day from Churchill's own side, Captain Charles Waterhouse rose to speak for the Tory rebels. An ex-Guardsman who is seldom heard on the floor of the House, he was stern and resolved. "We speak in sorrow," he said. "In this piece of paper we have got all that is left of 80 years of British endeavor, thought and forethought." He complained of U.S. pressure: "For many years we have had a little American lamb bleating in Cairo, not helping and if anything hindering in most things. Well...
Thought for Each Day. In Japan, says Eells, Communism remains a powerful influence among teachers and students even though the government has taken stern anti-Communist measures. In the spring of 1950, at least 130 student Communist cells were registered with the office of the Japanese Attorney General. The total membership reported was 4,526, including more than 100 professors. More recently, the chief of Japan's security investigation reported to the Diet that there are 100,000 party members in the country, and that of these, seven out of ten are "young men and women in their...