Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When my high school government class was visited last year by a young police officer, I looked with skepticism on the idea of his communicating anything to a group of intelligent, liberal-minded, middle-class students. But after the first awkward exchanges, my initial impression softened, for here was no...
Back in Prague, Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer covered a meeting of the Czechoslovak Presidium. Buttonholing key members in the lobby of the historic Spanish Hall of Hradčany Castle, he learned at first hand many of the facts that went into this week's WORLD story. In other times...
Everything By Ear. Williams was born Louis Weertz, the son of a Lutheran minister from the corn country of Nebraska and Iowa. At eight, he had learned to play 13 instruments by ear, but he did not get serious about the piano until one of his teachers told him he...
Shoe Under the Curtain. Owings ?and the committee's ? goal is to turn Pennsylvania Avenue into Washington's ceremonial street ? a rival to Paris' Champs-Elysées. When completed, it will run straight and wide from a great reflecting pool at the foot of the Capitol to...
With 400 years having gone by, the earth filled with black blood and broken black bodies, a nation of few having grown to a nation of 200 million, transportation extending from one tip of the country to the other in just a matter of hours, communication connections in seconds, shanty...