Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...course, true that many people in Texas sincerely oppose Kennedy for both economic and religious reasons. But it also happens to be true that it is easier, and cheaper, to defeat him here among the working class voters with religious rather than economic arguments...
Fetid Mysteries. To middle-class residents of Rio and São Paulo, the fetid favelas are cities apart, mysteriously alive but best not entered. In her book, Carolina tells them what life there is like. She recalls that for her daughter Vera Eunice's birthday, she dug a pair of shoes out of the garbage. "I washed them and gave them to her." Of the death of a two month-old boy in the favela, Carolina notes: "If he had lived he would have gone hungry." She says, "How horrible it is to see your children...
...Warren High School, Fran Doroshow, 18, a pediatrician's daughter who started it all, said she got mostly A's and ranked seventh in her class ('59). At Boston's Simmons College this past year, she got a jolt. Simmons festooned her freshman English essays with C-minuses, and she knows why. "In all my years in high school," recalls Fran, "I wrote only two essays and one term paper. They came back with A's and no criticism." French was an equal bust: "I had three years of French in high school, but when...
...Gourmet Exploration ($40, lunch extra) : Visits to African, Armenian, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish restaurants. The semester winds up with a class discussion on "low-caloric method...
Hailed as "the new Liszt" at 19, Michelangeli has toured erratically and temperamentally, but today, at 40, is known chiefiy among other leading pianists. Perhaps his most important work: his year-round classes for hand-picked students from all over the world. At his summer home in Arezzo near Florence last week, Michelangeli was presiding over his latest international class of 34, enforcing iron discipline but treating musical problems with immense patience. He can dismiss a student at a moment's notice if he fails to show the "talent and good will"; yet he never takes fees from those...