Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...gladdening evidence that he had not lost his old campaigner's touch, and a good omen for the political talks still to come. Ike had carefully prepared for its impact. On a cross-country "nonpolitical" tour for the past fortnight (TIME, Oct. 31), Ike generally confined his formal endorsements of the NixonLodge ticket to small gatherings of G.O.P. brass. In public he spoke instead on such broad national goals as fiscal soundness and the continuing struggle for world peace-but left no doubt as to who should score the goals. The trip was aimed at the wavering and undecided...
Several Republican scholars, called together by Fuller, met in Washington August 13 and announced that they were organizing to support their man. A letter to thousands of professors around the country and a brochure describing the group has been the only formal actions taken by the members as a group...
...have grown increasingly curious over just what the fate of the world does hinge on, Meyer has explained, "Our real problem is living with the Chinese. If they were under United Nations surveillance, they could not commit such aggressive acts as moving into Tibet, with the impunity of the 'formal' outlaw...
Teaching & Thinking. Unlike all-out progressive educators, Hansen refuses to "leave learning to chance." Though Ami-don's youngsters will get plenty of "experience-centered activities," they will not be "lost in a hodgepodge of unit teaching." Reading begins with phonics in first grade and formal grammar starts in fourth grade (two years earlier than in most U.S. schools). Writing is heavily emphasized because it "improves and refines thinking"-and the same goes for math and science. More outrageous yet by progressive standards, geography focuses on specific places, and U.S. history is taught in chronological order "to develop...
Strange Slop. As one of the famed "Eight" of Manhattan's Ashcan School, Prendergast bore the brunt of the attacks on the 1908 Ashcan show* that marked the first revolt against the formal nudes and innocuous landscapes that dominated turn-of-the-century U.S. art. Outraged by his fantasy, critics inveighed against Prendergast's paintings as "whirling arabesques that tax the eye." "unadulterated slop," and "the product of much cider drunk at Saint-Malo." If Prendergast felt the sting, he left no record of it. His brush became still looser, his rhythms more intricate, his outlines so subtle...