Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Fustest & Mostest. But MacConnell and his students did not stop with recommendations: in some towns they undertook to persuade citizens to vote for school bond issues. They arranged radio interviews, hired airplanes, snapped aerial pictures of likely school sites. In Campbell, they persuaded local merchants to plump for a school bond issue in special...
...Real Issue. As a boy, Curtis wanted to be a cartoonist, later changed his mind and attended medical school...
Wrote Low: "Under the pressure of the big-time operators, football [is] becoming more savage, vicious and dangerous each season . . . leading to a brutalization of players and spectators alike." As a prime example of capitalist brutality at work, Low recalled the cheer of his own Brooklyn high school (Brooklyn Technical): "Ram 'em, bam 'em, rock 'em, sock 'em, hit 'em hard, hit 'em low, c'mon Tech...
...letter to Peoples World, Sports Editor Lester Rodney of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker wrote: ". . . My friend Nat Low has in a sectarian moment gone hogwild on football ... By and large . . . it's still a fine game . . . Nat is actually exceedingly silly when he takes the high-school chants about rocking 'em and socking 'em and reads a process of blood-seeking brutalization into...
...produced by Peter Lawrence and the Show-of-the-Month Club), which closed at week's end, was half harrowingly cute, half harmlessly dull. At the start, some children and their elders decide to produce an opera, using the audience for chorus. While the cast rehearses in "the school auditorium," Musical Director Norman Del Mar flirtatiously coaches the onlookers through various songs-one of which turns the audience into owls, chaffinches and turtledoves. After that, the opera itself-a period tale about a chimney sweep-is performed...