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...words he can recognize at sight. Some teachers use flashcards; others may have a "daily newspaper" for which the children can recite a one-sentence story about themselves ("I played ball yesterday"). Detroit schools use a pre-primer called Before We Read. This teaches the beginner to distinguish shapes (e.g., by picking out a sailboat from a series of trucks) and sounds (e.g., by picking out objects with similar names, as in rabbit and rattle, turtle and turkey). The next book also contains a number of word captions which through repetition the child learns to recognize at sight. With this...
...time he quit regular criticism for playwrighting, in 1894, Shaw had learned to "distinguish between what every [artist] can do and what only a very few can do." He learned that "a criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading . . . When my critical mood is at its height, personal feeling is not the word: it is passion: the passion for artistic perfection . . . The true critic, I repeat, is the man who becomes your personal enemy on the sole provocation of a bad performance." And he decided that the quick, deadline-ducking judgments delivered by newspaper critics could be valid...
AMERICAN management would be well advised, if only for the sake of America's reputation abroad, to distinguish more clearly in its propaganda between "capitalism" on the one hand and the present-day American economic system on the other. "Capitalism" has a bad reputation in Europe and Asia, deservedly so in many cases. Consequently, to advertise and to glorify our own economic system as "capitalism," without at the same time making a lot of distinctions and sub-distinctions, is, again, to play into the hands of the enemy. The American system has a number of weaknesses and imperfections...
...nature of every infant, said Dr. Kelley, to believe that the world revolves around him and especially his digestive tract; as a growing child, he cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality, he lacks emotional control, and, being inexperienced in the world's ways, he cannot make sound critical judgments...
...shadowy, secretive world of Reinhard Gehlen, it is often hard to distinguish legend from fact. Some Gehlen agents are ex-Communists as well as ex-Nazis; others have been double agents. But there is little doubt that the newly sovereign West German Federal Republic will inherit one of the most efficient intelligence organizations in the world...