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...when Luthuli rose in the great hall of Oslo University to make his acceptance speech, and at a dinner the next evening, that he lifted the occasion far above mere warmth or politics. Dressed in his tribal costume-flowing blue-and-black robe, leopardskin cap with monkey tails, a necklace of leopard's teeth-Luthuli spoke for all that is best in black Africa, showing an intellectual's perspective, the devoutness of a mission-educated Christian, and the faith in nonviolence that has always marked his career...
Some Jelly Sandwiches. For one thing, there was a joint birthday party for Caroline Kennedy, just turning four, and John Jr., 1. On hand were 15 friends and cousins-along with a woolly black monkey named Susie. Hostess Jacqueline Kennedy had hoped to borrow a Baltimore Zoo chimpanzee with a knack for drawing pictures, but she learned that the artist-animal was undependable around children. So Susie was invited instead. She shook hands with the children and mimicked them. After the monkey came other party treats, such as tricycling in the marbled White House corridors and watching animated cartoons...
Massachusetts has made some progress since the days when it banned Dreiser's An American Tragedy, but not much. This week, for example, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer was banned with no fuss, no hysteria, no monkey-trial shenanigans. It was a reasonable hearing in which reasonable men argued their sides before a reasonable judge. Yet the decision revealed that this is still the commonwealth of the Yahoos, the Grundys and the Comstocks...
...Monkey. Yet the children could pronounce and spell those incomprehensible words. Using phonics, they had learned to build from letters to words. The reforms, cresting in the 1930s, played down the meaning of letters and played up the meaning of words. The result was the "look-say" and "whole-word" methods of teaching. Children were supposed to be taught first to "see" words and then break them into letters and syllables, but teachers rarely got around to carrying out the second step effectively...
...sorts of "research" was used to justify the change. The work of such experts as Arthur I. Gates of Columbia's Teachers College seemed to prove that children recognize words by visible "clues." For example, said Gates, the "tail" (or y) at the end of the word denotes monkey to children. Soon children were asked to recognize the "two little eyes" in moon-with logical results. Since letters meant nothing, moon turned into boon, loon or soon. Now, say critics. U.S. children are mired in a whole lexicon of reading errors-bolt for blot, bouquet for banquet, cottage...