Word: peering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years since Education earned its "E" as a science, the language of the teacher has undergone a gobbledygookish change. A kid no longer has pals; he has a "peer group." He does not study subjects but goes through "a learning experience." And his job often seems less to master the three Rs than to satisfy his "real life" and/or "felt needs." In a new book called Translations from the English (Simon & Schuster; $1.95), Robert Paul Smith, author of the bestselling "Where Did You Go?" "Out." "What Did You Do?" "Nothing.", takes up the problem of how to understand teachers...
...Yoben is a Royalist. Enter, inevitably, Oliver Cromwell, whom Novelist Goudge feels she knows intimately, including his conversation. "My lord, we must act at once!" cries "Old Noll" Cromwell to his C. in C., the Earl of Essex. "Let us do nothing hastily, Colonel Cromwell," answers the slower-moving peer, then adds: "Decisive victory now would prevent incalculable suffering." Probably, muses one character, they are saying the same thing in the enemy camp-and sure enough King Charles had told his aide, Lord Leyland: "Francis, if I can win an overwhelming victory . . . my people will be spared the misery...
...roll sometimes sounds like a musical accompaniment to Jean-Paul Sartre's La Nausée. While U.S. rockers chant wide-eyed changes on adolescent love, requited and otherwise, their French counterparts in the cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés are inclined to peer through their existentialist glasses darkly. The most successful of the Parisian rock 'n' rollers is a 31-year-old self-styled gypsy who goes by the name of Mac-Kac (real name: René Reilles). A jazz drummer, Mac took to rocking after the U.S. film called Rock Around the Clock...
...amount of ground, and must not treat the teacher as anything but a "resource person who sparks sharing or supplies material at a psychological time." "In a modern democratic society," say Hollis and Jeep, "the emotionally healthy learner seeks more and should seek more for the acceptance of his peers than for the acceptance of the teacher. Teacher approval tends to weaken peer approval." Students thought up most assignments, were "encouraged to do as much or as little reading as their individual needs seemed to require." The whole idea was for students to develop the "we feeling" and to strengthen...
...good gossip should have no shame, and Angus Wilson has little. In his current, brilliantly readable collection, Wilson has given the dreadful dossiers of about 40 odd types, ranging from pathological spivs to a loony peer. The intellectuals shuffle inside their ideas like men in borrowed dirty clothes. Most of the characters have ambiguous attitudes toward sex, money and class. The title story, A Bit Off the Map, is the personal narrative of Kennie, one of the loose-jawed, tight-jeaned set known in London as Teddy boys, who falls in with a crew of intellectuals. They are dismal London...