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...objective evidence of effectiveness in teaching . . . When these tests have been given in Denver, they have shown definitely that we are not 'neglecting the three Rs.' " But, says he, "if the child is taught only to read and spell, the schools have not done their job. The twig must be bent to democratic living." "Hell," declared easygoing, pipe-smoking Assistant Superintendent Hinderman, "nothing has been taken away from the schools, but a lot has been added. We can't have horse & buggy education in a hydrogen bomb...
...imaginative sound effects to produce a superior suspense film. Most suspenseful sequence: the SS general slowly stalking a victim in a twilight forest while the sound track listens with hair-raising patience to the chirp of crickets, a night bird, and the final telltale crack of a breaking twig...
Nanking lies quiet and hushed in the soft spring evenings. In the cool, cavernous railroad station, less than three months ago jammed with shouting soldiers and wailing refugees, a lone coolie sweeps his twig broom. Outside, street lights flicker wanly until 11 p.m. Then they go out. After midnight (curfew hour), the streets are deserted save for rifle-toting municipal gendarmes in shabby black uniforms and yellow armbands, who shamble along preceded by a youngster holding a lemon-colored paper lantern...
...should a man waste his talents on the obvious? He seemed never to leave out a leaf or twig, and since he insisted on making himself such a slave to nature, wasn't it too bad he'd had no camera? The paintings, it appeared to some visitors, provided no more food for thought than the color photos in a resort folder...
...headquarters were in a mud hut within a mud-walled compound. Outside the door a soldier hunched over a twig fire, drying his cotton shoes. Inside the hut at a table, the commander of Li's Eighth Army bent over a map. Two candles stuck in their own wax at the corners of the table were the only light. Li waved us to seats around the table and called for food...