Word: brushup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well, sort of. What Williams' tutelage comes down to is a brushup on the basics, a touch of inspiration and lots of positive thinking. "Nobody knows that little game between the pitcher and the batter better than I do," he says. At practice sessions, he stations himself behind the batting cage, shouting for Catcher Paul Casanova to choke up on the bat, commanding Shortstop Eddie Brinkman to "swing at strikes, dammit, strikes. Wait for the good pitch. And listen, the base on balls is a hell of a play." For the pitchers, there are lessons on what makes...
...CAREFUL WRITER, by Theodore M. Bernstein. A compendium of grammatical gaffes-everyday and esoteric-that is a reference book and an entertaining brushup on basic English. It will grow wings on any fledgling grammarian gadfly...
...fringe benefits already include a show to train local school board members, a recent production of Macbeth for English literature classes, a statewide monthly brushup program for doctors, and a projected junior college TV program for evening students all over South Carolina. But the vital change is among schoolchildren, now getting a taste of expert teaching for the first time. For thousands of her classmates, one ninth-grader sunis up: "I've learned more this year than I did in the seventh and eighth grades put together...
Babes in Toyland (Buena Vista), Walt Disney's first live-action musical, is a wonderful piece of entertainment for children under five, but children over five who plan to see it will be well advised to take some Berlitz brushup lessons in baby talk...