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...your timely recognition of Adams. He has created-with full backing from President Eisenhower-a unique and much-needed role in the modern American political machinery. By the way, it's hard to see how he could have skated to the music of Mozart and Chopin, piped to "Webster Lake, near his Lincoln home"; actually, he, while governor, and Mrs. Adams rented a home at Webster to be near Concord...
...skating to music was done on Lake Winnepocket, near Webster...
...fact about the present controversy, it is that it is nothing new. True enough, the U.S. was once perfectly willing to leave Johnny chained to the alphabet. The New England Primer taught him his ABCs through little rhymes (e.g., for R: "Rachel doth mourn/ For her first born"). Noah Webster...
...Superintendent Charles E. Wingo of Argo, Summit and Bedford Park, 111. uses a system originally started by the late Julie Hay, a longtime Bedford Park schoolteacher. Teacher Hay figured out that 87% of all the syllables in the abridged Webster's dictionary are phonetic. The Hay-Wingo system begins with the short vowel sounds, then the ten most commonly used consonants. After that come the long vowel sounds and the ,rest of the consonants. Within two months, local teachers claim, "the children are unlocking words-on their...
...fundamental reason for such a thing as the Emmett Till episode ... rests upon the archaic ideology of the southern people as a majority. I interpret ideology here in the Webster sense as the "aggregate of ideas, beliefs, doctrines of a large group of persons". This ideology has lead the Southerners to spew forth such statements as the following: "If Roy and J. W. (referring to Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, the defendants in the Till case) are convicted of murder...where under the shining sun is the land of the free and the home of the brave?" Or more...