Word: grasped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Groom, the Kerrs' most important asset after their talent. "Mrs. Kerr is a real gay gal," says Mabel?but not in the early hours of her day. Then, like the heroine of Mary, Mary, she doesn't grasp things: "I hear voices all right, but I can't pick out the verbs." After an urn or two of coffee, she begins to pick them out?on a typewriter in the third-floor master bedroom. She has given up using the celebrated Chevrolet as an office, "because I ran out of places to park. People would drive past and wave...
...mixed bag of U.S. aid agencies under a single head. And cold war crises will doubtless warm up support for the President's request for $4 billion for fiscal 1962. But Congress will be reluctant to authorize long-term loans and to relinquish its own year-to-year grasp on the purse strings. "If we don't get it," said the President at his press conference, "I think we'll continue to see some of the drift we've seen in these programs in the past...
...teaching machines' stoutest advocates feel that they can do much more than that. They argue that "programed learning," which is what they feed into teaching machines, can not only improve and speed up teaching, but can greatly increase the pupil's ability to grasp and retain. Programed learning is being tested on thousands of youngsters across the nation. Already it promises the first real innovation in teaching since the invention of movable type in the 15th century...
...evaluate the work without the aid of a recording or score, I must limit myself to tentative first impressions. While I frankly did not grasp same parts very well, certain aspects stood out in their orginiality and expressiveness. One was its form. There are four movements, an introduction and a conclusion; and cadenzas connect the continuous movements. One instrument dominates each movement while the rest comment upon the leader or conflict with it. In addition, each instrument has a unique character throughout the work consistent in intervals, rhythm and quality; the cello, for instance, plays predominantly rubato, and the second...
...succeeded, I think, because the listener is less aware of the individual parts than the way in which all four cohere. Moreover, the work grows in a natural fashion and the quick, epigrammatic changes of feeling do not pull it apart at the seams. Still, I did not grasp the reconciliation of the voices that he intended in the last movement, but hope that further listening will bring...