Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left Krishnamurti where I found him, in a leather chair surrounded by students eager to impress him with their knowledge of obscure Indian cults. Not until a few days later did I realize what an impact he had made on me. I was walking through the Yard when I happened to be struck by the slender, bright-white spire of Mem Church slicing the dark sky. I stopped, looked, and tried to concentrate. "What the hell are you doing standing like a fool gazing at the sky?" I asked myself. There was an embarrassing silence. Then it started raining...
...students have taken the course and come out untouched by the unique experience. Many, however, tend to give a distorted picture when describing it, probably because it is easier to impress a listener with talse of a dangerous and scaring experience than to express the more subtle and less virile sentiment of group unity which evolves over the year. When the Harvard student talks about 120 to a 'Cliffe, he is apt to discuss the many times he "weathered the storms of a vicious, hostile session. You'd better keep away," he adds wisely...
...more to him, and his hosts, than the usual red-carpeted round of pleasantries. For Marcos, it represented a threefold opportunity - to renew a long-standing bond of friendship with the U.S., to make a case for increased U.S. aid to bail out his stagnating econ omy, and to impress on Americans some home truths about the realities of power in Asia. With willing assistance from Washington, Marcos made the most of his opportunity...
Obsessed Parents. The N.E.A. report argues that income alone does not determine who can benefit by earlier schooling. Just as disadvantaged are "pampered" children or those whose parents "are obsessed with the need to impress and achieve" and "show them little love." For all children, says the report, the first four or five years of life are the period of most rapid mental growth in which "exposure to a wide variety of activities and of social and mental interactions greatly enhances a child's ability to learn...
...obviously wants his line to get all the experience it can in the Pacific-and to impress the U.S. Government favorably-in hopes of capturing a piece of the promising civilian business there. Figuring that nonmilitary traffic across the Pacific will continue to boom, Continental has applied for several routes from the U.S. fanning across the ocean to New Zealand and Korea. The awards will be decided, probably not before 1968, by the one man most concerned with performance in Viet Nam: the President...