Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from a machine called Clavilux, which its inventor, Thomas Wilfred, has since dismantled. Fortunately, before doing so. he photographed the projections. Not an easy thing to do, as our lensmen learned when they tried to focus on the moving, blinking, flashing machines. Said Photographer Frank Lerner: "To give the idea of light in motion was a difficult assignment because there is no such thing as a norm." He repeatedly went back for retakes; his subjects never looked the same. "I came back so often that I began to feel like The Man Who Came to Dinner at the gallery...
...Sugar. Depite these potential profits, said Reagan, "I am opposed to the state using such a method to obtain revenue. I reject the idea that the state might take advantage of its citizens or that it should operate its finances on the one-shot windfall theory or that the average man will cheat his government...
...people all over the country to the great museums." Paul Goodman, 55, one of the aging gurus of the New Left, spends much time visualizing how city streets could be turned into playgrounds or parks, and how motor cars could be barred from Manhattan (the last being an idea that should do a lot to win friends for the New Left...
Reading was not always so hectic. In fact, the whole idea of rapid silent reading is less than 35 years old. Until the 1920's, reading instruction in America stressed accurate oral reading almost exclusively. The good reader was the pupil who could sight read aloud with expression and fluency. Then experimenters at the University of Chicago demonstrated what appears obvious today: by the fourth grade most students can read silently faster than orally. They proved, furthermore, that comprehension and retention is significantly better after silent reading...
...resolution passed the 11-member committee over strong dissent from four Republicans. In general, they objected to the idea of laymen's second-guessing the professional military on tactical and strategic moves...