Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buttoned boots"; they feared the somber Blackfeet Indians, who fished in the Flathead River. The trio hurried along, since before every class Miss Blachly had to put all the lessons on the blackboard in her neat, round Palmer script for the students to copy-no one had a textbook...
...write for magazines," says Literary Agent Perry Knowlton, "are in tremendous demand from book publishers. Naturally, they move on." Despite the fact that he was making $50,000 a year as a magazine freelancer, Ernest Havemann is taking time out for a couple of years to write a textbook on psychology. By writing such books as Madison Avenue, USA, The Schools, and more recently The Lawyers, Martin Mayer has raised his income to more than $50,000 a year. Freelancer A.E. Hotchner has made close to $500,000 from his bestselling Papa Hemingway, and William Manchester has earned at least...
...instructor and weapons-research scientist. ·The prestigious University of Chicago appointed Dr. John Hope Franklin, 52, chairman of its history department. Author-Educator Franklin holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard, has taught at Cornell, Cambridge, Wisconsin and California, and co-authored a controversial eighth-grade textbook, Land of the Free, which gives generous recognition to the role of Negroes and other minorities in U.S. history; 400,000 copies will be used in California schools next term. As he prepares for his new responsibilities, Franklin is busy updating his book, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of American...
...suppose that, having drawn a diagram of a tiger on the blackboard, the teacher may safely invite children to stroke the nice "pussycat" roaming in the jungle. Sex is probably the most powerful, and certainly the most mysterious, of the instincts, and cannot be tamed by a textbook...
McLUHAN believes that Joyce, because he was an artist, understood the importance of media, and he regards Finnegans Wake as a textbook for the electronic...