Word: doors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempts to provide at least a smattering of learning. The Daily News published hints on how parents could teach their children at home ("Have your young Charles Dickens write a short story"). The Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney offered art classes to any student who showed up at the door. With...
Beatles and Indians. When the Shrivers arrived in Paris, the U.S. flag was flying from the top of the residence, Shriver explains, "because they were afraid that hanging it out over the door, someone would come along and either tear it down or throw something at the house." He and Eunice put it back in its proper place. "Now," he says, "it's there above the door every day, and nothing's happened." The once well-manicured lawn has been turned into a badminton court, to the Gallic gardeners' profound dismay. The residence's ornate furniture...
...popular of all the Chinese operatic styles but practically a national pastime. The plots are familiar tales about kings and concubines, scholars and lute-playing ladies. The performers, in elaborate costumes and makeup, convey their characterizations through a series of ritualistic actions and formal gestures (the closing of a door, for example, is indicated by bringing the hands together). Although shrill and piercing to Western ears, the singing is delicately modulated and full of virtuoso flourishes, which Chinese audiences applaud with shouts of "Hao!" Realism, not Ritual. After the Communist takeover in 1949, Peking opera, like most of the arts...
...rare and radical surgery that has wrought such changes, Dr. Hendrick cuts a trap door in the skull, removes the entire neocortex (new brain) and hippocampal area on one side (see diagram), stopping at the midbrain just above the hypothalamus. He puts nothing into the huge cavity that results, because it soon fills up with cerebrospinal fluid. The operation, he says, "is not exciting-it's terrifying, especially, on young babies. They don't have much blood anyway, and we have to get into an area that's all blood vessels. And you have...
...scrap of paper with Wallace's initials on it. And filing out slowly were the old people, with thin faces and flannel shirts buttoned up under the chin, and the middle-aged women, the wives of the men who were at work in the factories--shuffling toward the door and the street...