Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole idea was to help lower income children," Chall says...
Alfred Hyslop, one of the first producers of the show, says "the basic idea was that since kids apparently learned a lot from animation, we [could] use commercial techniques [like animation] to teach...
Based on her findings, she pushed for including the alphabet in the show. Many had resisted the idea, criticized learning the alphabet as a useless rote exercise...
University professorships honor "the idea ofresearch and teaching crossing both departmentaland disciplinary boundaries [because] those boundscan sometimes be artificial," he said...
Until not so long ago, Sinatra's notion of cool was deader than an imploded casino in Vegas. Bourbon on the rocks and snap-brim hats were your parents'--no, worse, your grandparents'--idea of hip, stuff that looked quaint beside the bug-eyed alienation of the 1960s. Hippies wore blissed-out smiles and ponchos. Sinatra wore cuff links, roughly $30,000 worth in the mid-1950s, when that kind of money bought a house or two. In the Oedipal drama of the counterculture, Frank was the daddy-o who must die. He could swing his raincoat over his shoulder...