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Word: decipherer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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And because the world is so complex, because the possibility exists that I might be guilty, in theory, of all sorts of crimes of which I know nothing, a pragmatic view of moral judgment requires some criteria of relevance and immediacy ascertaining moral responsibility. Every individual has a moral universe...

Author: By Orlando Patterson, | Title: Angola, Gulf, and Harvard | 5/2/1972 | See Source »

When it comes to politics, Li'I Abner and Pogo, which have satirized it for years, are at least as up to date as the men in Washington. Two characters that bear a remarkable resemblance to Senators Hubert Humphrey and Hugh Scott were recently dispatched to Li'l...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE COMICS ON THE COUCH | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

Strangely enough, the children are all learning to read at a public school in Merrick, N.Y., on Long Island's South Shore. The rattles are supposed to enhance "reading readiness" by sharpening a child's hearing discrimination; the dictated stories enable the teacher to show students how their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Readings on Reading | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

Walters dipped the Cobra's nose and rolled out to the northwest. A set of scrambled alphabet letters came in over the T.O.C. radio, and Hayden pulled out his "Whiz Wheel" decoder to decipher the grid coordinates of his mission. As their chopper raced over the bomb-pocked Laotian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Killing Is Our Business and Business Is Good | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

The idea of evaluating the intellectual and emotional makeup of a child by analyzing his drawings did not originate with Kaufman and Burns. Ever since the 1920s, psychologists have been measuring intelligence by asking children to draw a person (the D-A-P test). For the past two decades, clues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Diagnosis by Drawing | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

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