Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book boasts at least two other invaluable assets; an unremitting emphasis on the need to resist dogma and to create change thoughtfully, if slowly in practice as well as in theory, and a refreshing understanding of where reforms probably begin and end, of how far schools may improve with straightforward changes in practice and to what degree boarder issues of race, inequality, income distribution, and public finance will have to be faced before more fundamental change is realized. Schools Where Children Learn centers on what Featherstone, in an interview, called the "micro-issues" of reform, changes on the level...
...song "Goodbye Josh," dedicated to his friend and mentor Josh White, is also straightforward, and foregoes maudlin sentiment for a simple, sincere farewell...
Kilbridge characterized the one and one-half hour meeting as "very simple and straightforward...
...metaphor for revolution, while André Malraux (who got Mao to tell him about it in 1965) used it, in his non-biography An-timemoires, mostly as an excuse for some very elegant prose. Dick Wilson, an editor of the Singapore Straits Times, has modestly tried to assemble a straightforward account based on Chinese sources, scrupulously avoiding conjecture. The result is fascinating despite certain obvious problems. Original documents relating to the march are scarce and those that survive may well have been doctored...
...star (Glenda Jackson) who has hurt her foot in a tram accident. Remember, credibility is not the point. Just before Polly is due to go on--and face the sparse matinee audience--the moment occurs that pushes the film straight into baroque fantasy from what appeared to be a straightforward musical...