Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sound, One Symbol. I.T.A. proponents believe that all this sabotages conventional ways of teaching reading. The "look-say" method tries to link the visual pattern of a word with its meaning, only to run up against confusing variations of form (all three letters of "AND" look different from those of "and," for example). Also difficult is trying to apply the phonic method, which teaches children to single out letters and their phonemic values so that they can read and spell analytically. In the 26-letter alphabet, one letter often represents different sounds in differing words-for example...
...terms with the U.S. Among her 320,000 people, she lived quietly with her husband, Prince Félix of Bourbon-Parma, a descendant of Louis XIV, and her six children. Charlotte's favorite pastime was growing roses, and the Vatican awarded her a Golden Rose as a symbol of her devotion to her faith...
...association distributed hundreds of thousands of sheets of yellow gummed stickers. Printed in red above the inescapable word "Poison" is a vicious-looking, four-fanged cobra, poised to strike. Most youngsters, the association reasons, are warned against snakes early in life. They should be able to recognize the symbol and heed its warning. The recommendation is that stickers be put not only on dangerous medicines, but on containers for such poisons, among others, as ammonia, antifreeze, bleaches and disinfectants containing chlorine, gasoline, insect and rat poisons, kerosene and lead paints...
...play seek-the-symbol at this point obviously would ruin the game for others. Nevertheless, the silence blatantly is the silence between the young and the old, the loving and the loved, the individual and the nation, one country and another...
Mother Joan, the nun possessed by eight devils, is the symbol of Poland, the Polish soul, the Polish intellectual. Her surging passion is the stuff that Poles think life is made of ("We drink hard - live hard - play hard," they will tell a foreigner). But when this passion is forced into the unnatural constraint of a nunnery, an artificially "angelic" costume, it becomes crazed and anarchic...