Word: learnedness
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Born in Boston in 1915 to a portrait-painter mother and a father who designed yachts and airplanes, Tudor became obsessed when she was a child with mid--19th century living. She collected costumes from the era and learned its crafts and folkways. As an adult, she lived without...
Two of her nearly 100 books were named to the Caldecott Honor list--a 1944 Mother Goose and 1 Is One, a learn-to-count book that charms even those who learned how long ago. Her simple couplets and light touch with watercolors compel readers to revel in nature's...
McCain is a little rougher around the edges. Unlike Reagan, who during the Second World War only played soldiers on the big screen, McCain has actually seen combat. And as it did Bob Dole, the experience has made him a little more ironic and a little less sappy. (Dole tried...
We need to do something about the stigma. Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said I never learned to read, they'd say I was an illiterate dolt. You can't look at science and math as separate. They...
When someone comes up to me with a question about the universe. And I reply. And I see the person's eyes light up because they learned something new.