Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Home Movie. Astronauts gain their photographic know-how during eight hours of intensive briefings and practice assignments with the cameras and film they are to use on their mission. Each is issued training cameras for more practice during off hours and asked to turn in exposed film so that experts can criticize their techniques. The Apollo 8 crew became skilled enough to make a home movie-complete with hand-lettered titles and credits that were held up in front of the camera-on their way to and from the moon. After thorough editing, NASA released only selected portions of that...
Playwright Herlihy, whose imaginative, sharply etched novels Midnight Cowboy and All Fall Down have been made into films starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty, is a dark and savage satirist. The six-year-old Theater Company of Boston seems to know exactly what he is laughing about...
...educe, or lead out, rather than to impose learning. Bruner himself concedes that it is far too early for conclusions. His first tiny subjects, advertised for in the Harvard Crimson, arrived at the center only last spring. "It is astonishing how little we, in an advanced technological society, know about these matters," Bruner has said. He is even more astonished by how much there is to learn...
...world fraught with instability and change, one wants to be able to hold onto a few universals. Freud tried to define an inner core of constants in man." Among them he placed the sex drive, and in a period of rapid change, it can be comforting to know that some things do not change at all. "But a man's anatomy doesn't become his destiny," Gagnon says. "Man is primarily a social being, unlike the animals, and his destiny is determined socially, not biologically or instinctually...
...artist was feeling resentful about the considerable popular and critical acclaim enjoyed by "certain hard-edge painters." Thus "the human edge" becomes a play on the expression "hard-edge." The whole painting says in bold and aggressive tones: "My name is Helen Frankenthaler-and goddammit, I know how to paint just as well as the boys...