Word: background
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Such a background would be valuable for both the instructor and his students. Besides the ability to search for knowledge, future teachers should have the training to communicate their findings excitingly and lucidly...
...roam so freely, or officials admit their problems and shortcomings so frankly as in Poland. At the Zeran auto works near Warsaw, General Director Julian Dyia told TIME Correspondent Edward Hughes: "Certainly this is not a very efficient establishment. One reason is that we have almost no workers with background or skill in this field; they do very poor work." For news of this Communist country, see FOREIGN NEWS, The Communist Unemployed...
...Ridge, Tenn., to research a new yarn with an atomic science background, prolific Novelist Pearl (The Good Earth) Buck, 65, passed on a bit of literary advice to a young reporter: "Don't worry about spelling, punctuation, paragraphs. Get your story on paper. You can always find someone to correct your grammar...
...tribute to TV's growing sophistication in the use of color. Ed Wittstein's sets, painted with cartoon-like sketchiness on a beige ground, gave an effect of air and space and no place in particular, left the color concentrated in the costumes; against the neutral background the disguised gallants were Turkish delights in their long Oriental coats, the women vivid in gleaming satins. Wrote Variety: "A memorable performance that simply could not be outdone . . . This was television achieving its highest purpose...
...time on teaching techniques, too little on the subjects their graduates will be teaching. Wrote one disgusted principal: "The teachers' colleges are the poorest we have. Principals and superintendents are, more and more, people from the teachers' colleges who are basically ignorant of world culture and its background. They have only part of an education...