Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resolutions on Capitol Hill are the small tip of a very large iceberg. In part, the Senators who favor the motions are responding to an unprecedented flood of teach-ins, referendums, legislative proposals, letter-writing campaigns, petitions, and books addressing the peril of nuclear war. The groups involved in the movement include such longtime disarmament organizations as SANE and the Union of Concerned Scientists. But with them are a host of fledgling organizations: Physicians for Social Responsibility, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, the Business Alert to Nuclear War, Artists...
...mind of Mexican Phenomenon Fernando Valenzuela, provider of about the only sweet note last season and about the only discordant one now. But even Fernando's holdout with Los Angeles has been kept a fairly light quarrel. Says Dodger Manager Tommy Lasorda: "All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was 'million.' " Softer, Lasorda says: "He was a big hero last year, but people are beginning to turn on him. It could hurt...
...jungle. "When He made the Word, God made possible also its contrary," says Emmanuel Lieber, who is apparently modeled on Wiesenthal. "He created on the night side of language a speech for hell ... There shall come a man who ... will know the grammar of hell and teach it to others. He will know the sounds of madness and loathing and make them seem music...
...accused the Administration of "spitting out words of war" while trying "to excuse the millions of people that are marching in Europe, opposed to our nuclear policies. . . by saying it is all a Communist-inspired plot. My God, did the McCarthy era teach us nothing...
...Chicago study, says Stanley, is "irrelevant" because it tests knowledge of mathematics rather than raw ability. He points out that the students were receiving geometry instruction at the time of the test. "What they've done," says Stanley, "is to show that when you teach boys and girls together in math classes, the girls learn quite well, and we've known that for 50 years...