Word: across
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Single file and almost silent, the marchers move across Memorial Bridge, past the drab Navy offices to the White House, and on to the Capitol. Each marcher carries a candle and a placard with the name of an American soldier killed...
Research groups composed of educators, psychologists, advertising people, film makers and children's authors met at five three-day seminars in the summer of 1968. Simultaneously Dr. Edward L. Palmer, an associate research professor in Oregon's state system of higher learning, began working with children across the country. "We learned that what bores them is too much time spent on any one subject." Hence the short spots. Also, "Nothing loses them faster than an adult full-face on the screen just talking." Hence the Muppets, the graphics and the film clips. "We try to keep verbiage...
...powerful if oversimplified introduction to the political and moral morass of Vietnam, In the Year of the Pig is ultimately confounded by its own sense of outrage. Such a partisan representation of history is better known by the much-abused term propaganda, and its message gets across to those who come into the theater already in sympathy with what...
...autobiography is complete unless its writer arranges to fall dead across the last page of corrected proofs, and Lind's account is no exception. But the book has a certain unity. At the end, young Lind has fled and fumbled his way backward from extinction to his tribal beginnings, and is now as ready as any two-year-old to start life...
...marchers were solemn and pensive as they walked four miles from the cemetery across the Potomac to the White House, and finally to the Capitol...