Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...massive textbook program financed mainly by the U.S., Taiwan and Australia has supplied more than 10 million books to Vietnamese schools-to the considerable irritation of the V.C. One Communist woman in black pajamas appeared at a school in the hamlet of Thoi Binh, looked at the books and warned Teacher Tran Thi Tarn: "You must not teach these things." Despite the warning, Mme. Tam, a mother of eight, goes on with her work. Says she: "It is important that our children have knowledge-then perhaps they will have a better life than...
...parallel the response to the "Are you now or have you ever been...?" of the HUAC hearings. When, John Proctor, the play's hero, agrees to confess his own sins but refuses to "name names," he is repeating Lillian Hellman's stand before the Committee; The Crucible is a textbook of such reactions...
...various times, CBS has looked over Curtis Publishing Co., held inconclusive talks with the Boston textbook house, Allyn and Bacon. With Holt, the indirect approach proved more successful. Holt President Alfred C. Edwards was caught by surprise last September when CBS paid some $19 million for the stock held by his biggest (10.8%) shareholders, Texas Entrepreneurs Clint and John Murchison. Upset at the time, Edwards since has warmed to the idea of CBS's rich (1966 sales: $815 million) corporate shelter...
...Just Good Friends." Yet with all the partying and punditing, he prepares assiduously for his classes at C.U.N.Y. and works on serious history, his original metier. He is now busy revising a textbook he coauthored, plans to return soon to his magnum opus, The Age of Roosevelt. He stretches his time by maximum utilization of material: most of his articles are on subjects he already knows, and he has a repertory of three or four lectures, which can be altered for the occasion with little extra effort, and may then be expanded into a book. His newest volume, The Bitter...
...Baltimore Catechism, a teacher asks, "Who is God?" and the well-drilled child responds: "God is the Supreme Being, infinitely perfect, who made all things and keeps them in existence." When a teacher using Come to the Father raises the subject of God, the child looks in his textbook at a brightly colored picture of the rising sun reflected in a pool of blue water. Then the teacher reads an accompanying lesson adapted from the Bible: "Let there be dry land and water and there was dry land and water. We say to God: Lord, how great and wonderful...