Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a week's coordinate living with the dog, I've learned how important it is to the dog to be free to expand its own awareness, to extend the boundaries of its own experience as far as it wants to. We keep it inside all the time except when...
We have all learned, we all know, that in dictatorial regimes the beginning may seem easy. Yet tragedy waits at the end, inescapably. It is this tragic ending that consciously or unconsciously torments us, as in the ancient choruses of Aeschylus.
Ambush in the Clubhouse. Diane Crump, 20, a pert strawberry blonde who made the first breakthrough on Feb. 7 at Hialeah, whipped home a winner her sixth time out of the gate. "A horse," she explains, "doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or...
-The blame for such notorious tax avoidance properly rests on the law, not its lucky beneficiaries. For a generation the guiding philosophy of loophole users has been that of the late Justice Learned Hand: "There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as...
"My mother took a dim view of my ambitions," she recalls. "She threw at me a copy of The Carpetbaggers. 'Read this,' she said, 'and tell me if that really is the kind of career you want.' " Raquel studied the book like a road map. "It...