Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computer can be programmed to give a student extra help if he needs it. If the student misses a problem, the computer will give him several more just like it, until he gets right answers, before moving on to new material...
...dilemma. One is cost, for although the original Rolls-Royce price of the basic machine has dropped to motor-scooter range, the expense of maintenance is still skyhigh. Another is under-utilization of machines already in existence. Still another is medical disagreement as to how much skilled professional help is needed to operate the equipment safely. Some say that only a doctor can do it, some would leave much of it to a nurse, while others maintain that the patient can do it himself...
...angry polemic from ten Negroes. They accuse Styron of distorting history when he describes the rebellion as "the only effective sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery"; they maintain that there were numerous others. They dispute Styron's judgment that the rebellion was put down with the help of loyal slaves. They bitterly question the mise en scene that depicts most slaves as complaisant plantation Sambos; on the contrary, say the critics, the slaves were constantly plotting insurrections. Finally, they complain that Styron in effect emasculated Turner by portraying him as a celibate harboring onanistic fantasies, whereas...
...hare slept when obscenely confident of the race only to be over-taken in the stretch by the tortoise who did not give up the tussle till the last line had been crossed. Betty Canter (right) and Eva Stuart have taken off from their summer school studies to help the Republican tortoise in the race for the nomination for the presidency...
Kahn has enormous help from Jane Greenwood's huge virtuosic wardrobe of oft-changing costumes, and from the up-to-date music and songs by Frangipane & Dante. I would also have to mention the name of every single player in the cast, all of whom, major and minor, are unfailingly entertaining both aurally and visually. I will at least cite here the stylish skill of Lawrence Pressman in the play's fattest role, that of the witty and skeptical lord Berowne...