Word: homework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Take the Jews. They're all a bunch of orientals, actually. Why I bet 90 percent of the people in this country don't know that David Ben-Gurion is a Zen Buddhist!" I identified myself with the majority. "Well all you got to do is your homework, to find out," he said. "Look. The Bible and science simply do not contradict one another. Some people say they do, but they just don't know their science...
...first playlet pits four masked interviewers against four job applicants. Fretfully, slavishly, the applicants answer like students who have forgotten to do their homework. Eventually the counterpoint of questions and answers gets so wholly garbled that the dialogue sounds like one of those elementary conversation books for learning a foreign language. Then the play opens out into a kind of choreographic ritual of modern life, urban herds shuffling to and fro, the commuter's lock step, a cocktail party. It is apparent that interviewers and applicants alike need help: instead of the bread of life, they are fed vacuous...
Ruyle said he thought that the consoles along with the typewriters necessary to type out the problem could even be placed in Harvard or Radcliffe dormitories where students could conceivably do homework...
...Apro. It was a dialogue that would be repeated again and again on the journey. Apro explained the Communist command economy, citing examples of liberalization and improvement, and mildly criticized the U.S. for its trade policies. Then he asked for questions. By their queries, the businessmen showed the careful homework they had done on the background material sent to them before departing...
...tell you what will happen if the Republican candidate is elected," Bobby Kennedy told the kids as he stumped California with Democratic Governor Pat Brown. "School on Saturday. More homework." His pitch to adults was just as tongue-in-cheeky: "Are you so devoid of compassion that you want to take Ronald Reagan out of the movies? He's beloved in the movies; send Ronald Reagan back to the theater...