Word: impactions
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Having recently reached its 500th performance, Jean Genet's audacious, exotic and unsentimental dramatization of the color question, The Blacks, still has zest and impact...
...better high schools are getting still better. Logic, Greek, Portuguese and a fifth year of French will be taught this year in Lake Forest. Ill. With Harvard's help, Capuchino High School in San Bruno, Calif., will develop a new physics course incorporating history, philosophy and the cultural impact of science. In Beverly Hills, which is starting a twelve-year foreign language setup, the high school even boasts two summer campuses in Spain and Austria...
...brief deviationist experiment with conventional contraception devices in 1957 brought disgrace to its government promoters, partly on ideological grounds, partly because the campaign made no impact on the Chinese people. Now, party dialecticians are trying a new propaganda tack-later marriage. The government lists all sorts of advantages: health, industrial efficiency, psychological adjustment, almost everything except the need to keep the birth rate down. Peking College Medical Professor Yeh Kung-shao spelled it all out explicitly in a recent issue of China Youth Daily. Wrote Yeh: "The ideal age for women [to marry] is from...
...Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation TALENT has already tested 440,000 high school students -one out of every 20 in the U.S.-and begun tracking their career orbits for the next 25 years. The purpose is to pinpoint the students' abilities, trace the impact (or nonimpact) of U.S. education on their development, and follow their failures and successes through the 19805. Last week Flanagan issued the first of many progress reports: Design for a Study of American Youth (Houghton Mifflin...
...almost worthy of Cervantes. A nun bemoans her sheltered life: "Apart from religious ceremonies, triduums, novenas, gardening, harvesting, vintaging, whippings, slavery, incest, fires, hangings, invasion, sacking, rape and pestilence, we have had no experience. What can a poor nun know of the world?" When two feudal armies clash, the impact knocks all their knightly paraphernalia to the ground. Instead of fighting, the knights scramble for loot, then make swaps. "What is war, after all," writes Calvino, "but the passing of more and more dented objects from hand to hand...