Word: textbook
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Chicago has never been known for civics-textbook politics, but this year's mayoral race amounts to a demolition derby. After winning February's Democratic primary, black Mayor Harold Washington has been challenged by two white opponents from his own party for the April 7 election, although both are running under minor-party labels. Yet Cook County Tax Assessor Thomas Hynes and Alderman Edward Vrdolyak are spending most of their time attacking each other...
...First Amendment bans any governmental "establishment of religion." So, to avoid objections from school boards, textbook publishers have often purged mention of the religious underpinnings of events like Thanksgiving or of moral values involving such matters as teenage sex and divorce. The result is a temporal outlook that critics, particularly Christian Fundamentalists, contend has become a creed of its own, secular humanism. Last week U.S. District Judge W. Brevard Hand, who has previously indicated his sympathy for such arguments, banned 45 textbooks from Alabama public schools because they unconstitutionally promote "the religion of secular humanism...
...suit in which Hand upheld two Alabama laws promoting prayers in public schools. When his ruling was reversed on appeal, an undaunted Hand accommodatingly allowed a group of parents and teachers who had intervened as defendants in the prayer dispute to proceed as plaintiffs in the textbook suit, advancing claims they had first raised in the earlier case. His ruling last week prompted hosannas from the religious right. "Humanism will no longer be guaranteed a preferred position in American education," exulted Robert Skolrood, executive director of the National Legal Foundation, a group established by the television evangelist Pat Robertson that...
...novel Falling Angel) rarely make it to the screen, for a simple reason: the significant action has occurred a dozen years before, so the entire plot must be exposition pocked with explosions of violence. Parker, an itchy director (Midnight Express, Fame) with a bang-on sense of textbook timing, occasionally tries to pump up his flashback talkathon with chase scenes that distract from the film's mood. But he has located a chic, grim style for the story. Garish, ominous colors flash vividly across his monochrome palette. The streets keep sweating rain, and clouds loom over the bayou like threats...
...promoting his seminars, Skousen touts his links to Ronald Mann, deputy staff director of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. Mann is a former board member of Skousen's National Center for Constitutional Studies. He provided historical engravings for a textbook by Skousen, although he insists he has nothing to do with supporting Skousen's seminars. The textbook, also titled The Making of America, is being sold by the California Commission on the Bicentennial...