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...education proper, the variations were wide. Of course, there was no widespread, relatively uniform public school system. In the rural areas and on the frontier, children were apprenticed early or simply worked alongside their parents at farming or housekeeping. Most city children in the North went to schools-but for varying lengths of time. Tutors were often an alternative in the South where distances between plantations made public schools impractical. Private schools were founded to serve the interests of those who wanted their children taught intensively and maybe with a particular religious point of view. In New England, parents...
...obviously quite another matter for a child born in America, though by no means is there now a uniform childhood for all. Although our infant mortality rate is higher than that of many Western democracies, it is still overwhelmingly likely (984.5 chances out of 1,000) that a child born in this country will survive infancy. Longevity has more than doubled in two centuries, and so has the duration of childhood. In 1775 a boy or girl of seven or eight, especially if his or her parents were not very well off (and few were), might already be learning...
...poor. By the spring of 1948, Mother Teresa had won permission to leave the cloister and work in the Calcutta slums. In August of that year she laid aside her Loreto habit and donned the blue-edged, coarse cotton white sari that would become her new order's uniform. After an intensive nurse's training course, she opened a slum school in Moti Jheel just before Christmas...
...sardonic snap of the libretto's gallows humor is virtually untranslatable except through the music. Ullmann's eclectic style produces a constant interplay between the melancholic and the light comic in Germany's rich musical tradition. Death, in the shabby uniform of a Central European functionary, could be a sadly tired Wotan. The Emperor's edicts are sung in the piercing soprano of the German cabaret...
Richard's assistant coach, dressed in an "UPWARD BOUND '75 MIT-WELLESLEY" T-shirt is telling the players, "It doesn't mean that if you get that uniform tomorrow that you'll keep it forever...