Word: group
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...significant finding of the project was that timid, reticent, below-average students showed a much greater tendency to "come out of their shells," and join group activities and discussions; and far more chances presented themselves for above-average students to exercise leadership and responsibility. Both sides of the desk-teachers and students-profited by a much happier, more productive learning situation all around. Most important, the California project's gains were not won at the expense of traditional achievements...
Since the pair were junketing through Spain with two other Congressmen and Maine's G.O.P. Senator Owen Brewster, they were able to borrow pants without trouble. But the incident set up a great and indignant gobbling: Keogh had been carrying the group's expense money in his wallet. It disturbed the Spanish police terribly also, since some of the Americanos were scheduled to talk to Generalissimo Franco in Madrid...
...standing group, composed of representatives of the U.S., Great Britain and France, which, under directives from the Military Committee, is to provide "specific policy guidance and information...
...shall take care not to align ourselves with one group or another ... remaining neutral on those [questions] not affecting us directly . . . India obviously cannot join either of the two blocs . . . What she desires is an understanding between Russia...
...sweet, flighty Birdie, are genuine mood pieces, effectively incorporating devices for a Southern flavor. Yet the music lacks the consistency of, say, "Peter Grimes," so that the total effect is one of Blitzstein rather than the South. This is particularly true of the music used by the Negro group. Two of their numbers are beautiful spirituals, but the others lack, at least on first hearing, any Negro quality...