Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back in 1961, young Jim Gabler came home from high school in Hawkins, Texas, and told his parents that he was bothered by his history textbook. When his father, Mel, read the book, Our Nation's Story, he was more than bothered; he was outraged. In a chapter on the U.S. Constitution, the book puffed up the powers of the Federal Government but minimized states' rights. Recalls Gabler: "It was teaching that Washington has complete dictatorial power...
Their power base is the state of Texas, where they have incorporated as Educational Research Analysts, a tax-exempt organization with a staff of six. Their detailed reviews of new textbooks under consideration by Texas schools, and Norma's motherly testimony before the State Textbook Committee have great impact in Texas, where schools have tossed out a number of new dictionaries that included terms like "slut," "queer" and "bed, verb transitive." Their objections to a number of health and government texts aroused elected officials on the Texas Board of Education, who last month dropped five of ten books that...
...countless works of art that have tried to contain him, from Moliere and Goldoni through Byron and Shaw. The fascination of his enigmatic psychology is apparently inexhaustible. He has been seen as a Punch-like comic character; as a tragic hero, or Nietzschean rebel against God; as a walking textbook of sexual pathology. He survives all interpretations. He will survive even this one: an opulent but confused and wrongheaded adaptation of the greatest of all Don Juan stories and perhaps the greatest of all operas, Mozart's Don Giovanni...
...history of the federal government's attempts to solve the waste disposal problem is a textbook case in agency buck-passing. In late 1977, the NRC urged the DOE to prepare a contingency plan in case the country's three commercial disposal sites had to be shut down. The NRC identified a "Clear potential for disruption," and suggested--as Illinois Gov. James Thompson recommended last week--opening the government's 14 existing sites to commercial waste generators. Nothing was done...
...declined at an annual rate of 2.3% in the second quarter, actually rose again by 2.4% in the July-September period. Since a recession is commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of economic decline, it thus will be early 1980 before experts can formally announce the arrival of a textbook recession. But the latest indications of growth were deceiving and cannot endure long. The upswing was due primarily to a temporary increase in consumer spending, as people who had been kept away from stores last spring by gasoline shortages did catch-up shopping during the summer...