Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Pleurs road to hand the invitation to the wandering Khrushchev. At 3 the others gathered somberly in the conference room at the Elysée Palace, which 200 years ago had been the dining salon of Madame de Pompadour. By then Khrushchev was back in Paris, but instead of sitting in the empty red plush armchair that was awaiting him, he was relaxing in a bathtub at the Soviet embassy...
...perhaps six couples used to gather to hear Cannonball (alto sax), and his brother Nat (cornet) launch into one of their driving versions of Cannonball's own Sermonette or I'll Never Stop Loving You. The crowd at the Workshop last week was closer to 200, and instead of sitting reflectively in their chairs, they were standing on them screaming. On the bandstand, Cannonball looked like a large, comfortable Buddha, sleepily contemplating some secret pleasure. But when he raised his hamlike right hand and with popping fingers lined out the beat, the music of his quintet came pouring...
...Challenge. Today. Father Baum perceives "a renaissance of Protestant thought." Instead of looking upon the Scriptures as historical material, Protestant thinkers now take them essentially as "the proclamation of the faith of the early Church." Instead of focusing on the time when Jesus was alive, Protestantism is beginning to focus on what is really accessible-the time of the early Church, after the Crucifixion. This places the Scriptures in an entirely new light. "What is important, first of all, is not whether Jesus really said this or that, or really did this or that; what counts is that through...
Triangles & TV. The council's first job is to revamp math teaching for 100,000 youngsters from first through eighth grade. The basic idea is to make math fascinating instead of a drudgery. First-graders use Tinkertoy-type men with wooden "fingers" to play variations on a theme of ten. Mental arithmetic encourages fast shortcutting. Algebra's inscrutable x's and y's become inviting squares and triangles that cry to be filled...
...Shanghai in 1923, when Run Run and Run Me, down to their last penny, held a somber parley with their two other brothers, Run Ji and Run Di. At issue: whether or not to sell their last remaining family possession, a dilapidated theater. They decided to sell their house instead and live in the theater, managed to put together a cumbersome stage melodrama called Man from Shensi, which inexplicably became a hit. One reason: the first night, the hero leaped into the air, fell through rotten floor boards. The audience laughed so hard that the brothers made the crash part...