Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...climax of the show, however, is not gold but vellum. If one were to trace to its source the ancient Irish reverence for language-for the Word as the incarnation of truth, as the fundamental building block of culture and religion-it would surely lie in the great illuminated codices of the 6th to 8th centuries, made and preserved in such monastic communities as Burrow, Kells and Lindisfarne. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word...
...achieve authenticity, some costume dramas force characters to pronounce every word without benefit of contractions-the isn'ts, don'ts and can'ts that make speech bearable. Wisely opting for today's idiom, Scriptwriter Jack Pulman occasionally falls into the opposite trap, with lines like "The Parthians are at it again, always stirring up trouble!" And Pulman doubtless was merely having fun when he put in Livia's mouth Mae West's famous line...
...school's problems those of society: more broken homes, more two-income families with no one to mind the children and?not least?less reverence for the written word. Concern about poor writing has turned up even at the best U.S. private schools. Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass whose standard curriculum includes three years of a foreign language, math up to calculus and intensive writing was driven by what Headmaster Theodore Sizer describes as the "video generation" to introduce an English competence course five years ago. In it, students are drilled in basic sentence structure four hours a week...
...Consequently, homework and requirements have gone down, grades have gone up. Watered-down curriculums fail to challenge. "The only places in schools today where people are really encouraged to perform up to capacity are in sports and the band," says Riesman, adding that elitism is almost as dirty a word as sexism or racism " Back-to-basics proponents advocate tightening up the curriculum with more requirements and forcing all students to show minimal competency" in essential skills before graduating. So far, 26 states have passed laws requiring competency exams. Congress has also begun hearings on whether there should...
...paid as much as the skilled craftsmen represented by the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, while the A.U.E.W. is determined to maintain the pay differentials. But the vote at least staved off the worst. The government, which now owns 95% of Leyland's stock, had passed the word that it would advance no more cash to Leyland if centralized bargaining were rejected-a move that would have meant the company's demise. The workers apparently believed that London really meant...