Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memorably played by Donald Pleasence, is the smelliest, itchiest, un-deloused scamp ever plucked from the rim of a rubbish barrel. Every time he opens his mouth, he picks at the scab of past wrongs and present hates. A wily slum serf, the tramp raises a mock one-finger salute to his masters, and plays the brothers off against each other. They, in turn, offer him the nebulous post of care taker, and finally, in mutual revulsion, cast him out to an unknown fate...
...accident. How did it happen? Ask me questions that can only be answered with a yes or no." Young children jump immediately to the "closed stage" of a hypothesis: "Was it a boy in the car and his mother was rushing him to the doctor because he cut his finger and the car went off the road?" The young do not grasp problem-solving as a process of elimination. "Cognitive simplicity is a virtue of maturity," says Bruner. Only as they grow older do they ask "open hypothesis" questions: "Was it night? Was the driver tired? Was it raining?" Then...
...perfectly genial, perfectly agreeable." Behind the geniality, of course, was the deadly serious purpose of finding out whether a Berlin compromise is possible. The seriousness was acknowledged by Gromyko. who has developed into an inveterate knee-tapper, prodding his own and his opponents' knees with a blunt finger for emphasis; although Gromyko speaks English reasonably well, he insisted on conducting the Rusk negotiations in Russian through an interpreter to make sure that no word was lost or misunderstood. And indeed much of the talk concerned words. The men around the table sounded more like semanticists than diplomats, exploring...
Terror of Black. To turn students into something more than what Pace calls "finger wigglers," group teachers plunge their students quickly into harmony, ear training, sight reading and improvisation instead of emphasizing recital pieces and finger drills. "It's like teaching a child to swim before he gets afraid of the water," says Pace. "Most children get middle C-itis by playing only a sea of white keys for so long. They're terrified of black keys. They think that any composer who uses sharps and flats is just being mean...
Died. Earle Ensign Dickson, 68, longtime employee of New Jersey's Johnson & Johnson surgical supply company who, while treating his wife's finger for a kitchen knife mishap in 1920, inadvertently invented the Band-Aid, which eventually earned his firm $30 million in annual sales and Dickson a vice-presidency; after a long illness; in New Brunswick...