Word: cocoon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Escaping the Cocoon...
KAFATOS' FIRST major research project at Harvard, performed while a graduate student, was an investigation of how a moth escapes from its cocoon. The Elementary Science Study program has published an account of the way he found "How a Moth Escapes from its Cocoon." It will be used in elementary schools in September. In the pamphlet's preface, Kafatos states that science courses should not teach only the well-ordered results of research but also the daily progress of research, but also the daily progress of research, including the disappointments as well as the illuminations. He claims this would encourages...
...people around me were shocked. They thought I was being spiteful, would have to be closer to me. He had been forced to realize--as I already had--that however hard you try, it doesn't make any difference." A Cliffie said, "I wrapped myself in a cocoon and shut out the world--not because I wasn't aware of what was outside, but because it didn't count...
...Americanized. The heroine is Laurence, the ultramodern career woman (advertising, of course) with a successful architect husband, two sweet little girls, and a lover always on tap (chap who works in her office). She is suffocating in a sea of materialism, false standards and social hypocrisy. Security is a cocoon. The sorrows of the world must not intrude; her sensitive eldest daughter must not be made aware that there is cruelty and hunger in the world...
...shelling competed with the constant drone of helicopters and jets taking off and landing at Ton San Nhut, only a ten-minute walk from the International Voluntary Services house. During the day I tried to get to know Saigon and imagine what it might look like without its oppressive cocoon of sandbags, barricades, rolls of concertina wire and black exhaust soot (military traffic has created so much air pollution that I wonder why the VC don't wrap their weapons in oil cloth and sit tight for two or three years while emphysema kills off all the city people...