Word: tot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Obedient to his smallest wish, Fuller's kids start the day doing three-R lessons in Spanish, then shift to Russian, later to Greek, and finally English. In the one-room-schoolhouse tradition, the oldest help teach the youngest. Thus all proceed at their own pace. The smallest tot begins writing in script, assiduously copying such maxims as "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Art and science are similar exercises in demonstration, not experiment. Instead of spontaneous sketching, the kids dutifully copy reproductions of the masters; Fuller shows scientific phenomena with a Sterno can and a toy physics...
...prisoners well. At the P.W. barracks at Pondá, the prisoners ran their own camp, cooked their own meals, were only lightly guarded. On Christmas Day, while Bing Crosby records of Adeste Fideles echoed across public squares, they were each given a three-course meal, ten cigarettes, and a tot of wine...
...Counts? It is the very young and defenseless who seem to get the worst shake from the tot-book people. No sensitive pre-Dewey adult could read some of these first "reading aids" without revulsion, and to read a number of them produces an effect of mild narcolepsy. Many have been clearly influenced by the notorious "look-say" teaching method, and if a large percentage of children under eight can barely read, the reason could be that what they are permitted to read is witless and dull. Probably the safest rule for the adult buyer is to avoid any book...
...essence, the Russians shun this-is-fun in favor of solid content. In his first reader, the Russian tot is blatantly propagandized, notably in a eulogy of Lenin's love for children. He is urged to keep clean, study hard, tell the truth, feed birds in winter, help old ladies when they fall, and take care of papa when mama is off at her job flying an airplane. But he also studies the lives of ants, bees and squirrels. He is taught how to identify six mushrooms, twelve birds and the tracks of hares, foxes and wolves. Fully...
...hero of the film is a sort of Soviet Skippy named Seryozha, a small-town tot portrayed with shining innocence by Borya Barkhatov, age 5. Plotless but not without pattern, the picture develops by episodes and apparent diversions a quite subtle study of what a father's love and care and vigorous, manly example can mean to a growing...