Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just that in the Heritage. With "Arnie's Army" cheering him on, he jumped off to a three-stroke lead over Nicklaus in the opening round and maintained that edge during the next two days. Although Palmer slipped to a 74 in the final round, Nicklaus did even worse-four bogeys on the last nine to run up a 75 for the round and give Palmer his 69th professional victory...
...parallel attack on elm disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to cross the disease-prone American elm with the hardy Siberian variety. Even if the hybrid is a success, elm lovers are not likely to be pleased. The new tree clearly lacks the grace of its American parent. "It has a single, central trunk rather than our beautiful vaselike division," says Hansel. "Who will want a tree that looks more like a maple than...
...comprehend that actions have causes. In this period, the child is not egocentric by choice. Parents should understand, says the University of Rochester's David Elkind, a leading Piaget scholar, that intellectual immaturity and not moral perversity is the reason why a preschooler continues to pester his mother even after she plainly tells him she has a headache...
...what determines the speed of the pendulum's swing. As he watched and asked questions, he found that the children were spontaneously considering all the possible variations: changing the weight, letting it drop from increasing heights, giving it stronger shoves, or changing the length of the string. Even children who never had seen pendulums before tried each possibility until they found that only shortening or lengthening the string did the trick. Quite possibly, Piagetians sometimes speculate, adolescents' fascination with their ability to visualize alternatives is what makes them so eager to test new life-styles and Utopian ideals...
Nonetheless, supporters outnumber detractors. Harvard's Bruner, Piaget's most appreciative critic in the U.S., voices a common reaction when he acknowledges that Piaget's general conception of the growing mind "is so compelling that even in attacking it one is inevitably influenced by it." At the very least, Jean Piaget has enabled adults to approach children more sensitively and realistically-and perhaps even with greater...