Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...control the process, Skinner insisted on a machine. On his prototype machine, the size of a portable record player, the student pulls a lever to make a frame appear in the window. He ponders, writes his answer, pulls the lever again. The answer moves under glass (to prevent his changing it) and the correct answer appears. As the Skinnerian student clicks along, he concentrates fully on each item, advancing only when he is ready to answer. If he gets spring fever he may stop work, but at least he misses nothing, as he would in class. If he wants...
...dark when the raiding party reached the poor Moscow neighborhood where the informer had said there was underground activity. Before the raiders, a sagging frame house stood dark and deserted in the snow, waiting for the wreckers. In the light of a feeble bulb at the entrance, two women were sawing wood. A large dog lunged snarling at the squad leader, until one of the women called it off. "Whoever you are. you're in the wrong place." she told them. "There's nobody here but me and my sister and my old mother-in-law." The raiders...
Past the veranda of the one-story. frame house runs South Fifth Avenue. It is a narrow, rutted road of yellow clay shaded by oak trees. On the other side of town, beyond Magnolia Street and the county courthouse with its marbled Confederate soldier, runs the avenue known as North Fifth. There stand the great mansions with their porticoes and colonnades and carriage houses. Big Auntie has been there-as downstairs maid and cook on the cook's night out-in the big green house set back from the street by a lawn. Although their names might suggest otherwise...
...abstract chamber works written (with a few exceptions) before 1935 and after 1946. Most are far less easily approached than the lyrical ballets; music critic Paul Rosenfeld once said that Copland's works of the early '30's "resemble nothing so much as steel cranes, bridges and the frame of skyscrapers." But although direct quotation of jazz and folk songs find little place in these pieces, both influences are now assimilated into his style and occur in an indirect fashion...
Perhaps too willing to please, Schuster is nervous and gentle, the kind of individual one could never hate, but readily become impatient with. When no one is in the gallery, he works by himself in a small frame shop in the rear--"You wouldn't want to sit around doing nothing all day." A considerable portion of his business derives from this task, a fact which follows logically from the present quality of his objects d'art. Proud of his framing work, he says "it's amazing how much bad taste you'll find around in framing; nothing hurts...