Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their final achievement record was dramatic. According to standardized tests, the average student gained two years in reading comprehension during those six weeks. After a regimen of a composition a day most could write a decently organized four-paragraph essay. Most had a firm grasp of the basic principles of their next math course presented in the context of the new math. This preview of work to come was especially crucial for several who would be adjusting to previously all-white schools in the fall. The rapidity of this academic development-almost like time-lapse photography in students with...
Theodore Hesburgh, 48, Notre Dame. Freewheeling and decisive, he roams from Taiwan paddy fields to ice floes in Antarctica, retains an amazing grasp of detail of all he sees and hears, and considers his latest project, organizing an ecumenical study institute in Jerusalem, "a very big thing-but something you do before breakfast." He is a member of the National Science Board, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, consultant to the State Department. He spends 120 to 150 days a year off campus...
...long interior scenes, Godard has greased every pivot on his tripod so that the camera often wheels about the room. In fact, Brialy occasionally hops on a bicycle and rides around the dinner table. By contrast, Godard has inserted five minutes of candid shots on the Paris streets which, grasp their subject matter so naturally that you never think of him trudging about with a bulky cinemascope camera. The abundant use of jump-cuts keeps the films pace fast and your eyes blinking for the entire 90 minutes...
...grasp of the selective service system's complications displayed in the report does not reveal Beecher's personal uncertainty about the equity of current draft arrangements. But it is his belief that as long as the system is set up as it is, college students should be aware of their rights under it as well as their responsibilities. Many of the rights, even the most basic ones, go unexercised only because students are unaware of them...
...their first eight weeks learning the alphabet from their teacher. But they are not taught all the sounds of all the letters. His "structural linguistics" approach keeps children from the confusing phonetic inconsistencies of the language (the 40 different sounds conveyed by the letter a, for example) until they grasp the fact that in general, letters correspond to sounds...