Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already embedded in his nervous system. To test this premise, Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies has been conducting a series of unusual experiments on the human baby. The studies are based on Bruner's conviction that the infant is "a complicated programming system" and that a great deal of research on the child has presumed too much. In observing babies, Bruner tells his students, "assume that you are studying the great-chested jabberwocky and find out how he acts...
Major? She has proclaimed no new doctrines, founded no new school. But with this show, she has demonstrated that she has a clear and distinctive talent of high skill, great beauty and the kind of excitement that comes with the sense that the end is not yet in sight...
...spent $1.4 billion on nontaxable "official entertainment." The 1,140 bars along Tokyo's Ginza depend on the free-spending businessman, who likes to do his entertaining away from wife and home. If it were not for the golden fringes, the main streets of Tokyo-and many other great cities-would be dull indeed after dark...
...shoot the scene where I make love to Mercy in the grass. Eventually we did shoot it ... we had to go in the grass very deep." If he had trouble with the fuzz, it was even worse with some of the cast. "Berle is one of the great monsters of our time," he says. "You believe he's the Devil because he's such an s.o.b. anyway...
...portentous generalization can tempt him: "In the last fifty years we have contributed relatively little in the way of new ideas of any sort. From radar to rocketry, we have had to rely on other societies" etc., etc. Sarcasm betrays him into rhetorical flourishes: Lyndon Johnson is "the Great Khan at Washington"; objection to John O'Hara's handling of sex is archly laid to the "Good Gray Geese of the press...