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...Rules. Analyzing this everyday miracle, Moore theorized that children conquer speech by a trial-and-error process, which in true sociologist's style he calls' "heuristic search." To find the logic behind incomprehensible symbols (words), they make up their own rules, match their results against adult speech...
...kind of mind that can conceive of skidproof face cream, concede Getzels and Jackson, is likely to drive a teacher dotty. But it is also, they argue, the kind of mind that solves problems by striking out in new directions. And until teachers conquer their tendency to associate goodness with giftedness and to mark accordingly, they add, U.S. schools will continue to smother some of the nation's best youngsters...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra has not lost the sheen and precision it acquired last year when Michael Senturia '58, was named its new conductor. At their concert last night in Sanders, the HRO demonstrated once again its ability to come to grips with a large work and to conquer almost all of its demanding details...
...learned to spoon up his Pablum by himself. The seventh of Joe and Rose Kennedy's nine children, he was born in his mother's bedroom in Brookline, Mass., was still in diapers when the family migrated to New York and Joe Kennedy set out to conquer Wall Street...
...methodically, slogging through military school by dint of grueling hard work. Once he complained to his English-descended father about a brilliant classmate who was always getting the best marks in class. "He has talent," said Cadet Lott. "Yes," said his father, "but if you study hard you will conquer talent...