Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But if the 90-minute exchange of views was supposed to be an exercise in education through communication rather than a debate, it is difficult to know who learned what. Early in the discussion, Pusey was complaining, "I'm not sure I understand you," or "Where do we disagree?" and...
Most of their talks had racial significance, although the students did not usually realize this when they began discussing various issues. They learned, for example, that their views on Vietnam and lunar exploration had racially symbolic as well as literal content.
In addition, whites learned that there is nothing intrinsically superior about having any particular skin color. And Negroes expressed the opinion that, somewhere else in the Universe, black skins might be more desirable than white ones.
"This one's for you, Rex," shouted Louis Armstrong to King George V during a command performance in 1932. Satchmo has since learned a little more about protocol, and his ten-minute audience with Pope Paul VI last week-the third Pope to receive him-was properly decorous. His...
No Time for Craft. At the end of the conference, the bewildered editors agreed they had not learned very much about newspapers, though they certainly had not been bored. DeCarlo, for one, had had his fill. "These kids don't appreciate the fact that it takes time to develop...