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Cultural Calculus. All this opens the way to very early algebraic notation, at first using squares and triangles as symbols. A teacher might ask: If the boxes contain the same number, how should ∎ + A -∎ = 6 be completed? One first-grader's immediate answer: any number for the boxes, but only 6 for the triangle. In one of his experimental classes, reports Mathematician Robert B. Davis of the Missouri-based Madison Project, one third-grade boy actually invented a new way of subtracting by junking the borrowing process in 64 minus 28. His answer: "Subtracting 8 from...
...vocabulary of curves and coils, pleasing both to look at and to live in. The Taylor house is cast in forms of rough-sawed random-width oak slabs, which give concrete a rich, grainy texture. Says Johansen: "I think of a house as a series of shells which contain human organisms; the outside of the shell is an epidermis, and it can be as rough as the seaworn shells one finds on the beach. The inner surface, against which the organism moves, rubs its shoulders, should be comfortable to the touch...
...summary represented a condensed statement of a much more detailed description of the factory director's role which was set forth in the first edition of my How Russia is Ruled, published in 1953; second, that the footnotes of both the original and 1963 edition of my book contain references to the excellent publications of David Granick on Soviet industrial management; third, that Mr. Granick, in his 1954 book on Management of the Industrial Firm in the USSR, of which The Red Executive is essentially a popularization, was kind enough to include me in his list of acknowledgements. I should...
These two lines, of course, are spoken before Hamlet has received "the fatal injunction" and his first thoughts when he does receive it contain no reference to suicide. This error in turn casts doubt on the assumption that "Hamlet is not a man of action" and hurts Rowse's evaluation of the play...
...Harvey, Southampton's stepfather, who, when the young earl's mother died in 1608, inherited the sonnets and "got them" for Publisher Thorpe. Rowse points out that "beget" is used twice in Hamlet as meaning simply "to get." The sonnets were written in 1592-94, because they contain innumerable topical references "obvious to an historian." "Mortal moon," for example, was a stock epithet for Queen Elizabeth. Sonnet 107 therefore could only refer to the Queen's safe survival after the attempt of her Spanish physician, Dr. Lopez, to poison...