Word: wright
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...speaks for kids?" the answer is, Everyone should [NATION, June 3]. Would we rather pay for effective schools or ineffective prisons? Obviously, schools that work. Would we rather pay for free immunization or long-term medical care? Again, the answer is obvious and apolitical. Applause for Marian Wright Edelman and the Children's Defense Fund! LITA LINZER SCHWARTZ Wyncote, Pennsylvania...
...fashion's Frank Lloyd Wright. In the more than 50 collections he has produced since 1968, Calvin Klein has remained Seventh Avenue's most devout modernist, its pre-eminent avatar of form-follows-function thinking. Each season his models have ambled down the runway in clothes created in quiet protest against fashion's outlandish theatricality. He has never dabbled in a world of beaded headgear or rubber cocktail dresses. "I've always believed in simplicity," Klein reflects. "I've never been one to see women in ruffles and all kinds of fanciful apparel. To me it's just silly...
...General Education course structure was developed in 1945-46 under Benjamin F. Wright, chair of the Committee on General Education, who hoped to spawn a curriculum of mandatory "basic knowledge" courses in three areas: humanities, natural sciences and social sciences...
Core courses now offer the general, non-specialized classes which Wright hoped would characterize General Education, Oettinger says...
...Reported by Melissa Ludtke with Marian Wright Edelman, Ann Blackman and Ann M. Simmons/Washington, and Tammerlin Drummond/Miami