Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...compromises Meyer made was with state Democratic leaders, who urged him to run for Congress in '58, instead of the Senate as he had originally intended. Meyer had been sitting in his living room one evening in the Spring of that year, with his family, when someone mused that he should run for the Senate. He arose, went into his study, and emerged with a copy of the letter which he sent to the newspapers, announcing his plans to seek the nomination. The Democrats, however, had already announced their support for another man, and feared a primary fight would weaken...
...Dassin himself "because I couldn't afford to pay an actor to play the part") is an intellectual Boy Scout from Middletown, U.S.A., who takes a trip to Greece in the wide-eyed expectation that in the cradle of Western philosophy he will "find the truth." He finds instead a warmhearted, disrespectful prostitute (Actress Mercouri) who tumbles only for the men she likes, charges only what they are willing or able to pay, and never does business on Sunday...
Indians & Doorbells. Hansen has no quarrel with progressive education's contention that problem solving is more interesting than rote learning. But he thinks progressives underestimate the pride that children take in acquiring intellectual skills. Instead of directly teaching the skills necessary to solve problems, progressive schools resort to a kind of subliminal advertising. They start out with "units of experience" built around such hardy fascinators as "the Red Man." After interviewing an imported chief in full headdress, children write Indian themes-supposedly absorbing grammar and spelling along the trail...
...Instead of liberating young minds, argues Educator Hansen. this method often imprisons them. When science is cloaked in a "home unit," it may get stuck at the doorbell-and never reach the principles of electricity. Says Hansen: "One is inclined to be interested in what one knows. Children want still more of the American Indian because that is what they know. This is not helping them to learn...
...durable goods producer's assembly lines. Nearly $18 billion was spent on autos and auto parts last year, and U.S. motorists paid another $6 billion for servicing them. Nevertheless the prospect of consumers' spending more and more of their money for green fees and plane rides instead of new cars and bigger TV sets is not a happy one for the makers of durable goods. The auto industry has already begun to fight back for a bigger share of the consumer's dollar spent in garages, e.g., the 1961 Fords have 30,000-mile no-lubrication chassis...