Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commerce, free competition is undesirable. In these fields the prime requisite is stability and security. Even if some of the much vaunted freedom of action which is the essence of the capitalistic system must be abridged to secure these, still, the pitiful experience of the past years should teach the value of such sacrifice. The trend of opinion toward a nationally controlled banking system can never be thwarted by the mere cry, "Socialism...
Arkansas was not alone in its educational troubles. School systems in many another State have either broken down or are perilously close to collapse: ¶ In 20 Alabama counties 85,762 rural children have no schools to go to, 2,500 teachers no place to teach. Rural schools in 16 more counties may close any day. A few schools are kept open by parent subscriptions-$5 per half-year for grade pupils, $7.50 for high-school students. ¶ Chicago school teachers last week were threatened with a 14% cut on their still-unpaid salaries. ¶ New York City school teachers...
...hand Caruso's photograph and the little bronze head. In Naples, where Caruso is buried. Scotti will pass the rest of his life, simply, now that the stockmarket crash has taken most of his earnings. But he will not write his memoirs. Above all, he will not teach. "I have heard too many great singers." he said last week. "I would be too critical...
...Negro lynched. A farmer gives him a job. He casts lustful eyes on the farmer's wife, lets his imagination run away with him and tries to rape her. Her scream brings the old farmer, sends the hero flying. A vegetarian hermit takes him in, tries to teach him the good life. But he is obsessed by thoughts of the factory; he leaves the hermit and goes back to town. A strike is on; the police break up a labor meeting. He sees red, tries to kill a policeman. But it works the other...
...proposed innovation, then, is intended to teach children something of the drama; but it proposes to do this through a medium which has hitherto presented dramatic principles in a form grotesquely distorted at best. Cinematic themes are commonly a patchwork of the efforts of several authors, or have been hacked piecemeal by the rewrite-men. The "character conflicts" are arranged in accordance with the meretricious morality of Will Hayes, and the acting is too often a mere exposition of secondary sexual characters. When genuine works of art are remodeled to conform to the movie-goers taste, the author's subtleties...