Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Being, myself, one of the "walking wounded" described in your story, I have a thought to add to those you so ably express. The very summation of our era as "The Age of Anxiety" and our endless preoccupation with anxiety indicates that we have deified the thing which besets...
...teacher of physics in a secondary school, I wish to express the interest and pleasure I took in reading your report on teaching machines. I fully agree with Komo-ski's opinion on the displacement of teachers. Every teacher feels frustrated and ineffective when faced with the problem of "getting across" a minimum body of factual information upon which subjective analysis must be based. On the one hand, he has the psychologically sound three Rs of learning: repetition, reward and reinforcement. On the other: one voice, one text and 43 minutes. The teaching machine probably...
Behind the flashy rebellion of avant-garde composers today there is a distinct note of despair. For while these men differ widely in their compositions and aesthetic views, they share a reluctant disbelief in the power of music to communicate anything from one person to another. Music cannot express; it can just stimulate interest...
...extremely hushed and clean reading of Wagner's Good Friday Spell from Parsifal. The opera is, of course, neither Christian nor religious, but deserves hearing any time. Why then drag it out in Holy Week for "appropriateness"? This bow to the season even caused one Boston critic to express profound shock that the audience broke the "sacred" tone of the concert with applause. Myself, I applauded lustily...
AIRLINES' BOYCOTT of credit cards, other than their own Universal Air Travel Card, was stopped by CAB. The ruling opens the door to American Express, Diners' Club and Hilton credit cards to sign up 118 airline clients...