Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...textbook economists the problem is simple: the U.S. has too much food, and much of the world too little. So why not ship U.S. surpluses abroad? But the U.S. has found that what makes textbook economic sense does not necessarily make political sense. The fact is that in its worldwide effort to win friends and influence people for freedom, a major obstacle is the U.S. agricultural surplus. The total value of that surplus now stands at more than $7 billion. It is rising so fast that the Agriculture Department last week was getting ready to ask Congress to boost...
Problem of Adolescence. "The textbook material 'learned' in high school and college physiology courses makes but a feeble onslaught against the fortress of centuries-old legendary beliefs," say Branch and Reiser. Though moderns may not believe that the presence of a menstruating woman turns milk sour, keeps bread from rising and wilts cut flowers, they betray holdovers of superstition...
...much-needed liberal sense. In attempting to counteract this situation in my own classroom, I have been met by an almost overwhelming opposition. Even my high-school seniors feel that an injustice is being done them if exposed to broader ideas than those rigidly laid down in the textbook...
...white linen suit and a red carnation in his lapel.; Greek Communism, he told the court, owed its allegiance to the Kremlin and Nico Zachariades. He took the stand only once in the nine-day proceedings. Then, toughing softly into a bloodstained handkerchief, he limited his remarks to a textbook eulogy of world Communism and an attack on "American imperialism...
...Osborn's has been one of the most curious. A soft-spoken teacher-turned-adman (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn), he has become convinced that education pays too little attention to imagination, and he has taken it upon himself to do something about it. Last year he wrote a textbook called Applied Imagination (Scribner; $3.75). drew up a special teacher's manual to go with it. Since then he has been writing to hundreds of educators and industrialists, has spoken often at workshops and banquets. Though some campuses have dismissed his course as a bit on the brash side...