Word: learnt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...represented are products of the extremely auspicious prelude to these two careers, which began during the late twenties. At the ages of fifteen and thirteen respectively, Bloom and Levine were joined by a common mentor and began to develop prodigiously as draughtsmen. They both took to the old masters, learnt much, and turned out a series of remarkably proficient drawings. Their works during this genesis are strikingly similar; it is obvious that their spiritual mentors were the best...
Harvard is behind because it never kept up. "We did not take advantages of the lessons learnt in World War II," Frohock says, "while such colleges as Cornell, Wesleyan, and Princeton did." Cornell, for instance, has an ambitious new program of language teaching which it started experimentation on as early as 1946. The question then must be: why did Harvard allow itself to become stagnated in an ivy-encrusted system first instituted by some English private school headmaster when it became evident that there were quicker and more efficient ways of learning a language...
...letters bubble with energetic, dogmatic advice, orders and maxims, particularly when the young scions are studying on the Continent: "All the French women are cheats"; "It is better to go without . . . civilities than to pay too dear for them"; "Dancing gives men a good air and fencing should be learnt . . . Medals and antiquities, painting and sculpture, I don't look upon to be the most useful knowledge to anybody." As an example to the youths, Sarah cited the case of a Frenchman of "about three score," then in England, "who has learned in [only] a year's time...
...worship and a new synagogue designed by Architect Rau and dedicated fortnight ago at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. Rau's austere approach to his task conformed with a striking text in the Jewish Prayer Book: "He who is walking by the way and rehearses what he has learnt, and breaks off from his rehearsing and says, 'How fine is that tree, how fine is that field,' him the Scripture regards as if he were guilty against himself." Rau decided against all distractions...
...three should "bawl with disappointment" when his small fingers struck a discord on the clavier. At four, Wolferl scribbled down his first clavier concerto; at five, before he had had a single violin lesson, he played second fiddle in a trio. "One need not have learnt in order to play second fiddle," he informed the grownups...