Word: schoolbooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing number of political moderates are deeply worried by LaHaye-style threats and by the specter of schoolbook censorship, legislation of private morality, and the packing of courts with doctrinaire "pro-family" judges. Some of the most thoughtful objections come from the Evangelical movement. The "packaging of the Gospel with politics" is unfortunate for the faith, says Chattanooga's Ben Haden, a conservative Presbyterian pastor and TV preacher. He compares the Fundamentalists who are venturing into politics to the church liberals who stressed social action over the Gospel in the 1960s. Charles Colson, the Nixon aide who served seven months...
...York and 27 other "open" states let each local district pick its own books. Obviously, the bigger the book order, the greater the clout. In March, Florida's Graham was host of a meeting in Tallahassee of publishers, legislators and educators from 22 states to talk about model schoolbook-selection procedures. Although the group could not agree on specifics, there was one strong message to the publishing industry: if standards are raised, the states will buy the books. California Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig, an aggressive reformer, wants to form a textbook buyers' cooperative. Representatives of Florida...
...with firms specializing in accounting, behavioral research and readability, Siegel & Gale came up with forms designed for the convenience of the taxpayer rather than the tax collector. The typeface is Franklin Gothic for the main heads, the same headline type used in this magazine. The text type is Century Schoolbook, a highly legible face that was developed more than 60 years ago. The designers use ample white space to give their work freshness and clarity. They have added a bright red color throughout for emphasis. Complicated material has been arranged in orderly columns. The new system makes it easy...
Armed with a metal detector, and counseled by his daughter's history schoolbook, a 38-year-old Irish building contractor set out to search for buried trea sure in County Tipperary. Near the town of Killenaule, not far from the ruins of sev eral medieval monasteries, and barely a foot below the surface of a bog, he made an astonishing discovery: a complete set of Communion vessels dating from the 8th or early 9th century. The choicest piece was a two-handled silver chalice, 8 in. high and ornamented with gold filigree and amber studs. With it, the contractor...