Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...censors of making Russian literature "something infinitely poorer, flatter and lower than it actually is." It was signed by 82 of the 500 delegates to the Congress and smuggled out to be published in the West, but no one was defiant enough to ask that it be read aloud during the proceedings...
...Gaza City, when the municipal council convened for the first time since the shooting started, everyone was embarrassed when the mayor read aloud the minutes of the last meeting, at which an outlay of 5,000 Egyptian pounds had been approved for Ahmed Shukairy's Palestinian Liberation Army. The appropriation was quickly canceled...
...Council members herself but was told by the Dean that her office could prepare them in time. Yet, when Mrs. Lindsay appeared before the Council, expecting simply to answer questions about the committee's recommendations, she found they had not read them, and was forced to read them aloud to the Council members...
...foreboding, black roses, a "plague" that "breathed the decay of centuries." No one then at Harvard was interested, so Lowell took his verses to Robert Frost, who was living near by. Frost read the first page of the Crusades opus. "You have no compression," he said, and then read aloud a short poem by William Collins, How Sleep the Brave. "That's not a great poem, but it's not too long." Lowell recalls that Frost was "very kindly about...
Reading was not always so hectic. In fact, the whole idea of rapid silent reading is less than 35 years old. Until the 1920's, reading instruction in America stressed accurate oral reading almost exclusively. The good reader was the pupil who could sight read aloud with expression and fluency. Then experimenters at the University of Chicago demonstrated what appears obvious today: by the fourth grade most students can read silently faster than orally. They proved, furthermore, that comprehension and retention is significantly better after silent reading...