Word: worked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were German Composer Hans Werner Henze's atonal, heavily percussioned fairy tale, The Emperor's Nightingale; Polish-born Composer Alexander Tansman's Stravinsky-flavored exercise, New Clothes for the King; Italian Composer Nino Rota's The Cunning Squirrel. All three were hits. Henze's work, in particular, won a shrill, twelve-minute ovation. But defenders of the moppets' taste were badly shaken when Carlo Franci's Final Comedy and Giorgio Ghedini's Girotondo-both tricked up with flung pies, flying paintpots and banana-peel pratfalls-seemed to touch off a lot more...
...church, the conversion of the Jews has been Christianity's hope, but there have been few signs of fulfillment. Now some Protestants seem to be launching a new movement to proselytize the Jews, reports Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg in the Christian Century. But, warns Hertzberg, it will not work, and should not be tried...
...noted stiffly that men who received the "sacred and indelible mark of baptism" could not be considered totally "de-Christianized"). But, continued Pizzardo, "it is above all through words that the priest must testify, and not by manual labor accomplished among workers as if he were one of them . . . Work in factories or shops is incompatible with a priest's life and aims." Even if a worker-priest could find time to say Mass and perform his other duties, he would still spend time "on manual labor that should be devoted to sacred studies; he is also plunged into...
...build more schools, provide more teachers; the Conservatives talk in terms of a $960 million program. The school system can use that much and more. One out of ten rural schools in England is still lit by gas lamps; science facilities are woefully inadequate. After 15 years of work, teachers get a maximum salary of $2,800. Even more vexing is that unexpected injustice, the dreaded "eleven-plus" exam, which was set up in 1944 as the fairest way to channel children into secondary schools geared to their abilities...
...parents say they will use savings, 41% anticipate scholarship, 29% will depend on income, 19% hope for loans. Some 28% expect their children to work part time...