Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parent boards have amazed professional with the speed with which they learn the skills of managing schools and raising funds. "They stop things," says Tony Ward, the articulate, mustachioed director of the East Harlem Block Schools, "for reasons that make sense." Parents, for their part, have learned a healthy cynicism about the advice of professionals and a confidence in their own judgement. Most community groups had the help of professional educators in starting their schools, but learned to guard their own authority. "Professionals sat down in our living room and we insisted on retaining control," says Ellen Fields...
...Magnon man hung a boar's tooth around his neck to ward off evil spirits. Twentieth century woman complements her Gernreich with bangles to draw attention to the flesh beneath. Medieval and Renaissance lords and ladies lived between the two extremes. As God-fearing Christians, they embellished their wardrobes with sumptuous crucifixes and jeweled pendants rich with Christian imagery. Such emblems indulged the wearer's vanity, but also made manifest his faith...
...Western publishers. Banned by the Kremlin, as were the author's two previous novels, the work has long been circulating in Russia by hand-copied samizdat, the underground press. The book is said to form the last part of a trilogy with The First Circle and Cancer Ward. In it, Solzhenitsyn takes Gleb Nerzhin, Circle's hero, from the relative comfort of the prison scientific community to the most terrible of Stalin's concentration camps. The novel's virtually untranslatable Russian title, Arkhipelag Gulag, suggests that all of Russia under Stalin was like a vast...
...last century; now many Catholic thinkers are also challenging the doctrine. One of the latest broad sides is the work of the Rev. Herbert Haag, a Catholic Biblical scholar at the University of Tübingen in Germany. In his new book, called Is Original Sin in Scripture? (Sheed & Ward; $3.95), Haag argues that there is no Biblical basis for the doctrine...
...remove stubborn berry stains. For Axion, Manhattan's William Esty agency has turned out TV spots starring Arthur Godfrey. He holds up a bloodied table napkin or a child's dress stained by chocolate ice cream and demonstrates how Axion helps clean them. Godfrey was hired, says Ward Hagan, a Colgate vice president, "because he's so sincere and believable...