Word: algebraical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Riley agrees with the rest of the Society on one of its most coherent themes--hero worship of Robert Welch. Riley told me that "Mr. Welch was reading Greek and Latin at age 6, knew algebra by 8, went to college at 12." Andrew Lane, a full-time employee who answers Society members' complaints and questions, called Welch "a brilliant man, an historian of the first rank. He read Ridpath's History of the world--that's nine volumes you know--by age 7." My tour guide, Frank Gotch, who had just come from Texas to work with Lane, made...
...hating whites and not being too smart." This definition of blackness, say the authors, can lead to "absolute terror" and conflict in those black teens "who would like to have friendships with blacks or whites, who enjoy Beethoven as much as Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered Soul, who prefer algebra to basketball...
...deplores "the kind of '60s liberalism that involves pushing money after every problem." In education, he is against permissive systems that "teach kids algebra hi the third grade and remedial reading in the twelfth grade." On law and order: "Let's get back to the old-fashioned idea that an individual is responsible for his actions." On drugs: "If people want to get high, they should turn to meditation...
...still among us, experimenting and creating. Last month she was the cover girl on After Dark, a homosexual magazine, and submitted to an hour-long television interview with James Day on NET. But late-life activity runs in her family. Her father began a correspondence course in algebra when he was well past...
...Johnny starts his algebra at the age of eight this year, why then Tommy will start his at the age of seven next. Have we all gone just a little bit mad?" asks Physician Thomas Charles Dann in a current issue of the British Medical Journal...