Word: ditto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classroom at any time, without asking teacher. With these ground rules, Herndon quickly discovered that his kids would rather leave his Creative Arts (CA) class and hit the bathrooms to smoke, than play around with his contrivances. CA might have been better than "reading dull texts, answering questions on ditto sheets, Discussing, making Reports, or taking tests... But that only applied to a regular class where it was clear that you had to (1) stay there all period and (2) had to be doing something or you might get an F." Herndon's conclusion--he was making the mistake...
...artist and teacher, I view the Andy Warhol machine with no other emotion than disgust. Although I admire Mr. Warhol's attempt to portray his environment in the indiscriminate manner of a ditto machine, I would suggest that he spend a little less time fondly fingering our cultural excrement. The concern should be with changing...
...Ditto: Phil Silvers. If someone is going to do an in-place jog in your living room in a blue sweatsuit, and rig the timer so that he won't collapse in the middling prime of his life, then why not share the pleasure of Phil's strenuously hilarious company? What with his toothy grin and Dennis' prehensile incisors, the pair might be auditioning for a dentists' convention...
...ditto for the gathered Kennedy Family...
...reticence rather than noise, he might have done well to include the suffocating written word as well as the spoken one. For while it is true that . . . Most of us suffer in some degree From cacoethes loquendi, Yet some who deplore it at length seem to be Afflicted with ditto scribendi...