Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a stern hand, the teacher writes x+5 = 9 on the blackboard. If a youngster pipes up that the "unknown" is 4. he is shushed. The teacher must first demonstrate the rigmarole of subtracting 5 from both sides of the equation to get 4. Says Beberman: "The student had a notion of what a variable really is - and probably for the last time." Numbers v. Numerals. In his own elementary algebra course, Beberman first focuses on the semantic difference between a number and a numeral. One is a permanent concept, the other a mere name for it. A number...
...National Science Foundation, which has already spent more than $8,000,000 to upgrade high school physics, math and chemistry, the biologists have no illusions about producing high schools full of biology majors. But they do hope to increase the percentage considerably, and at the very least give every youngster a good idea of what the science is all about. Says Dr. Arnold Grobman, director of the Colorado project, who is on leave from his job as director of the Florida State Museum at the University of Florida: "We feel that the one biology course in high school...
...Secret World of Eddie Hodges (10-11 p.m.). An hour of musical fantasy, starring Child Actor Eddie Hodges as a daydreaming, hero-worshiping youngster more or less like Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz. Guests: Bert Lahr, Boris Karlof
...routine existence of a careful housewife, a faithful, even timid mate, a concerned mother. Now, around her in the hospital, she sees too many examples of human ugliness-women near death who can still be petty, cruel, gluttonous and vain. Yet she still has an eye for a youngster at play, for courting pigeons, for flowers. Author van Velde triumphs over her unattractive little world by accepting it for what it is. just as Mrs. Van der Veen, with all her fears, remains a figure of dignity till the end. Without tricks-and without sentimentality-The Big Ward leaves...
...reform groups warn against pornography but do little or nothing to bring about good reading. Whatever corrupts youth, "it is not the reading of words by John O'Hara or D. H. Lawrence or Vladimir Nabokov or, for that matter, Grace Metalious." In fact, it is the youngsters' very "inability to do sustained reading, frustrating the youth at school and cutting off a major avenue of escape from the limits of what is usually a mean and sordid environment, that tends to breed rebellious delinquency." Concludes Lacy: "Life itself is often shocking, beset with temptation, surrounded with sordidness...