Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with excerpts from the works of Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Browning, Grimm, Schiller and Turgenev-all subversive influences, in the Peronista view. "A repulsive state of affairs," declared the governor. He named a committee to scourge the foreign authors from the schoolbooks. "The schools," he decreed, "must teach the child the mysticism, the soul and the sentiment of Peronismo...
Kogi men, says Reichel-Dolmatoff, loathe sex and shrink from it, an attitude they learn as boys from priests who spend nine years in darkness studying the tribal rituals. The priests, called mamas, teach that women are evil-but a necessary evil, because they provide men with food. Thus embittered against women, boys are initiated into a reluctant sexual role by a 60 year-old hag, and then sent out to seek wives...
...Haverford, Pa., just back with the Wimbledon singles championship, 17-year-old Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly walked off with her third straight Pennsylvania & Eastern States title after losing only eleven games in the entire tournament. Asked about the reported tiff with her coach, Eleanor ("Teach") Tennant, she replied: "I am not mad . . . We had a few words in England over my supposedly sore shoulder that never really bothered me, but we kissed and made up. Teach made me what I am today. She changed my entire game, and she'll be my coach as long as I play tennis...
...outlook is dismal, Long concludes, and the problem is almost as old as formal education. Taking note of a similar situation more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek Philosopher Isocrates dourly counseled his colleagues: "They who teach wisdom . . . ought certainly to be wise themselves; but if any man were to sell such a bargain for such a price, he would be convicted of the most evident folly...
Spiritual Point Four. But Earth-Mover LeTourneau has never been satisfied just to fill the financial side of his bargain. After a trip to Liberia in 1951, he decided that the best way to teach the Gospel to the natives was to teach them American technical skills at the same time. From the Liberian government LeTourneau leased 500,000 acres of jungle for 80 years at 6? an acre, laid plans to cultivate the land with such crops as rice, grapefruit, bananas and palms, cut down and export mahogany. He agreed to pour back the first five years' profits...