Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this reality that we must criticize carefully. Only then will film become the scientific tool of analysis Godard needs so he can reach sure knowledge of the real. His desperation for experiences of the real will not let him accept delays; but on the other hand his rationalism will not let him follow a shoddy line of analysis. Le Gai Savoir, far from being a crude propaganda film, absolutely refuses to move beyond the separate and minimal truths about film that it reveals. This refusal kept him from adopting a "correct" line before 1969; since then it has made...
...white parents have lied about where their children live, using "mattress addresses" in white neighborhoods other than their own. Preliminary checks by the Health, Education and Welfare Department have turned up at least 14 school systems where the use of various forms of "ability grouping," an increasingly debatable educational tool, has resulted in segregated classrooms. In some desegregated schools, blacks are kept out of extracurricular activities and forced to ride segregated buses. In Huntsville. Ala., 113 blacks walked out of a high school pep rally to protest the playing of Dixie, and a fight with white students ensued. The school...
Before abandoning more reasonable goals, a child may try using his anger as a tool. For instance, a little girl angry at her father because he is always late for visits may persuade him to come earlier if she tells him how cross she is-but she had better use "words more polite than those which first came to your mind." Successful or not, she should remember that despite what children imagine, "angry thoughts cannot harm anyone"-nor can wishes, common to children, that a parent get sick...
...grandest toy. They are also his first mystery. Even before he understands them, he puts them together and takes them apart. He pops pieces of them into his mouth, and spits them out in odd shapes. It is a profound form of play, for it is the only tool a child is given with which to comprehend a world in which he coexists without really belonging -the world of adults...
...What we're saying is that the questions raised by minority-group students are some of the same questions raised by students from majority groups with respect to how the law is to become a functional tool in American society," he said...