Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem is not the most serious that mankind faces, but it is intriguing enough: How would you design a dog-exercising machine? As part of a research project on the way humans think, British Psychologist Edward de Bono recently gave that assignment to readers of the British education magazine Where. The first 72 answers were from children aged four to 14. attending schools in both the United Kingdom and its former overseas territories. The unedited results, along with De Bono's commentary, are contained in an offbeat and fascinating new book entitled, naturally. The Dog Exercising Machine (Simon & Schuster...
Although often strikingly different, the children's designs fell into several definable patterns (see cuts). Many instinctively thought of using robots. Others favored obstacle courses and recreational parks with equipment that would both intrigue and energize a dog. One child's park had a catapult that hurled magnetized dog biscuits, which dogs chased as the biscuits automatically flew back. Several children proposed motorized treadmills, one of which was patrolled by four armed guards to keep the poor pooch from running off it. Another treadmill design featured a screen on which a movie of a rabbit was projected while...
...point of the experiment, De Bono explains, is that since there is no such thing as a dog-exercising machine, the children had to invent one from their own resources rather than rely on adult-imposed knowledge and experience, which often block creativity. The humorous but logical drawings, he believes, provide further proof that children are good at generating original ideas. The results are so refreshing, in fact, that many adult readers will surely be tempted to try designing a dog-exercising machine themselves...
...into the five paragraph "A Complete History of Germany and Japan." In another piece Brautigan sits in a Times Square movie house next to a cliched man, "fat, about fifty years old, balding sort of and his face was completely minus any human sensitivity." Brautigan compares him to a dog in the cartoon. Not only is the allusion completely minus any human sensitivity but it's thin on originality...
...Charlie Brown, Steve Harris keeps his "failure face" determinedly straight throughout the show, his shlemiel personality becomes more endearing the more he gets dumped upon. Like master, like dog. It would be hard to imagine a funnier and more appropriate piece of casting than Bill Nable's Snoopy. Not only does Nabel manage to look like a human facsimile of the darling dog, but he also has the gestures down pat, even to keeping his teeth bared while asleep. He surpasses even his master in over-sensitivity and sentimentality, and becomes, with his R.A.F. accent and adventure fantasies, the most...