Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eddie's sometime teammate (on the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants) and current chief rival for the affections of Chicagoans: Manager Leo ("The Lip") Durocher of the Chicago Cubs-the hottest team in the National League. Beating the Cincinnati Reds 6-3 last week for their twelfth victory in 13 games, the Cubs climbed to within one-half game of first place, set Chicagoans buzzing about the possibility of an all-Chicago World Series-first in 61 years. But if The Brat and The Lip do clash in the Series, it won't be a block party...
...cannot take the easy way out and put the blame on the playwright. For A Midsummer Night's Dream was the finest comedy in the English language until Shakespeare himself surpassed it in Twelfth Night. It is undeniably true that Dream is an unusually eclectic work, drawing its material from Plautus, Plutarch, Ovid, Apuleius, Chaucer, French romance, Italian commedia dell'arte, a couple of earlier English plays, popular folklore, and even Scot's nonfiction treatise The Discoverie of Witchcraft. But Shakespeare worked everything up into a fresh plot of his own -- or, rather, a skillfully unified interlocking set of three...
...eighth grade takes up more physical changes, "problem-solving techniques" and dating. The ninth grade discusses going steady and premarital intercourse. The tenth grade deals with engagement and readiness for marriage. Eleventh-graders take up sexual relations in marriage and the causes and effects of divorce, and the twelfth grade continues with the adjustments necessary in having children. Like most sex-education courses, to the chagrin of some critics, the Anaheim program avoids talking about contraception and sex techniques...
...JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Great One winds up his twelfth TV season with appropriate fanfare: an outdoor show before 12,000 people at Florida's Gulfstream Race Track, featuring Cornetist Bobby Hackett, Singer Dick Roman, Saxophonist Charlie Ventura, a high diver, a trapeze act, and an aerialist performing beneath a hovering helicopter...
...renewed, write a long, scathing editorial on the inadequacies of the T.S.U. approach to education. "The achievement level of students entering Texas Southern hovers somewhere around the junior high school level," Jones wrote, "and the achievement level of the average graduate of this institution is something less than the twelfth grade...