Word: kohl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's urban public schools have lately been subjected to a tide of opprobrious criticism. In dissonant concert, such fiery critics as Robert Coles (Children of Crisis), Jonathan Kozol (Death at an Early Age) and Herbert Kohl (36 Children) have charged that the city schools are guilty of the "destruction of the hearts and minds" of children...
...inner circle of back scratchers consists of John Holt (How Children Learn), Jonathan Kozol (Death at an Early Age), Robert Coles (Children of Crisis), Edgar Z. Friedenberg (Coming of Age in America) and Herbert Kohl (36 Children). By no coincidence at all, Holt lauded Kozol's book in the New York Review of Books. Kozol praised Holt's book in LIFE and Friedenberg's book in the Christian Science Monitor. Coles exalted the Kozol and Friedenberg books in reviews for the New York Times. Friedenberg, in turn, gushed over Kozol's writing in the Saturday Review...
...sequence is not over. Although Kohl's book will not be released until Jan. 15, two of his fellow critics have already stepped way ahead of the pack to push it in print-Friedenberg praised it in the Saturday Review, while Coles wrote a blurb that appears on the dust jacket...
Roger D. Brown is managing editor. Jonathan Kozol '58, author of Fume of Poppies, and Richard Tilinghast are the senior editors in Cambridge. Herbert Kohl '59, and Mark Mirsky '61 are the New York senior editors...
...each dressed in the strange, even bizarre, attire appropriate to the age group. Tall, slender, yet well built and comely, they exhuded an air of vibrant sexuality. Each had obviously spent considerable time and money in bringing her appearance to the pitch of perfection. Eyes were carefully shaded with "kohl" (antimony), skins painted and bodies held taut and provocative within the stresses of the short little kilts and tightly fitted "matari" (little short jackets designed to display the lower half of the bosom...