Word: digging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard, probably the best example of this approach on an elementary level is Humanities 6, which limits its reading list, but pays careful attention to each work. New College will not hurl Great Ideas at its students, but will let them dig around in the material out of which great ideas emerge...
...tells how the hero buys his guitar, learns to play, and leaves home for the big city (Memphis) after an altercation with his papa ("He was a square--he just didn't dig me at all"). Then he continues...
...story by Donald Taylor. In the last century, it seems, the teachers of anatomy in Edinburgh were forced to deal with "resurrectionists" for the dissection subjects they needed. Two of these "vicious human vermin of the gutters of the city" find it more convenient to murder than to dig up their stock in trade ready-killed, and familiar faces begin to show up on the dissecting tables, faces that had been seen alive, laughing and talking, a few hours previously...
...revulsion at the drumhead trials then going on in Communist East Germany, and supported by 20,000 lawyers throughout the world, the jurists' commission is tied to no national government, is so thoroughly self-financed that the delegates to last week's congress had to dig into their own pockets to get up the air fare to New Delhi. Thanks to its freedom from official pressures, the commission does not have to worry about diplomatic niceties. No lawyers from Spain, Portugal, South Africa or the Soviet bloc were invited to New Delhi, on the ground that the rule...
Perhaps the best of Comden-Green is their quicksilver asides. In a take-off on 42nd Street flesh cinemas ("Doors open promptly at 3 a.m."), Doorkeeper Betty barks: "You've heard of Madame Pompadour, you've heard of Madame DuBarry. Now dig Madame Curie, the greatest madame of them all!" From their turkey Bonanza Bound, they resurrect Inspiration, which credits women with inspiring great men through the ages. "That's enough of that Oriental stuff," cries Betty as Composer Rimsky-Korsakov's wife. "Just look around you in your own backyard." Suddenly she sees a backyard...