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...Kyle Rote, former football star and now a news commentator for NBC reviewed some more reasons for the added excitement of this game. "Whenever you have two coaches like George Allen and Don Shula, and you know the way they are, great things can be expected. Also you have a team, Miami, which just missed winning it last year and who is back again as the first undefeated team...
...common suggestion for educational reform is that grading, being inherently unfair and restrictive, ought to be abolished entirely. Students are supposed to be nervous and cowed when faced with a teacher who has the power to mar their college record. Spontaneity and cheerful effort disappear, to be replaced by rote memorization and dreary cramming, or so the argument goes. The most ambitious of the critics have even managed, in good Marxian fashion, to link the dog-eat-dog competition for grades with the ruthless struggles in America's business world...
...explosive Detroit Lion offense revolves around an equally rugged quarterback, Greg Landry (6 ft. 4 in., 205 Ibs.), who passed for more than 2,200 yds. last year and broke Tobin Rote's 20-year-old rushing record for quarterbacks of 530 yds. The New England Patriots are off to a sparkling start behind Jim Plunkett (6 ft. 3 in., 210 Ibs.), the former Heisman Trophy winner and 1971 American Conference Rookie of the Year. And in Pittsburgh, long-suffering Owner Art Rooney hopes that his Steelers can ride to the first league title in their 40-year history...
...which he launches attacks that are rarely devious and almost always total. When he has white, and thus the game's first move, he almost always opens with the centuries-old PK4 (moving the pawn in front of the king two squares forward). Though every grand master knows by rote the defenses against this stock opening, it is a part of Fischer's genius that he continues to fashion from it games that are freshly minted masterpieces of precision. "His judgment and feel for a position are un-equaled," says Grand Master Evans. "Chess is in his fingertips. That...
...much schooling works against education." So writes ex-Teacher John Holt, who has shown that schools encourage bored children to grope for rote answers and smother their spontaneous ways of acquiring knowledge. Those criticisms in his widely read books, How Children Fail and How Children Learn, made him a major spokesman for the reform movement in American education. Now, in his latest work, Freedom and Beyond (E.P. Dutton; $7.95), Holt argues that reformers of classroom methods might better work to "deschool" society...