Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, after fifteen or twenty minutes the film went blurry. Not impossibly blurry, just enough so that one might attribute it to technique. Eyes strained, faces contorted into strange, squinting positions.... But when the little man on my left began to clap, his wife grabbed his arm and the entire audience ssshhhed him violently. Squelched, he looked at the distended, hazy figures on the screen and muttered something to his wife, who snapped "Shut up, Morton...
...delinquents who worked for Streetcorner Research, 25 were known to the courts and 20 had spent six months or more in prison or reform school. Fifteen were gang members, only four had held a job longer than six months, and only one had graduated from high school...
Kenneth Eble, now on the faculty of the University of Utah, brought to his book fifteen years of experience as a student or teacher or both at six institutions, large and small, state and private. All along the line he was alert and observant, and he knew how to indulge in hard thinking. Moreover, his footnotes at the back of the book show that he has ploughed through almost all the important relevant publications with diligence...
There is not a single unintelligible sentence in all fifteen chapters, except those intentionally quoted from other sources. Again and again Mound myself underlining sentences that were especially felicitous or colorful in phrasing; and one could extract quite a collection of aphorisms and epigrams. The writing is always fresh and often witty; it is never stuffy or flippant. And one can only assume that these words describe the author himself...
...many professors to augment their income through outside jobs, and the magnetic hold of the profession on its practitioners. Its main appeal, Eble feels, is that "it deals with human beings at their richest point: with girls who bounce instead of sag, with boys between the cloddishness of fifteen and the bullishness of twenty-five." And he makes some prophecies about the effect of the increased demand for teachers in the coming decade...