Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout all the negotiations, there has been an East-West consensus that disarmament, being begun in an atmosphere of mutual distrust, must proceed by stages. Each stage would have to be completed to the satisfaction of all participants, before any further progress could be made. The lesson of Yalta has been well learned, perhaps too well for the summit conference to have had much effect on East-West relations...
...patronizing vulgarity with which Capra jazzed up the lesson threw a blight on scientific footage that, in itself, was as good as anything of its kind ever televised. Especially effective in color, these sequences showed a pounding human heart, the hearts of a turtle, a rabbit and a bird, and the passage of blood, a corpuscle at a time, through the microphoto-graphed capillaries of live animals. But as the price of admission, the audience had to face a tasteless jangle of gimmicks: a Superman-like "Hemo" to personify blood, dialect comedy, crude mechanical cartoon analogies of circulatory functions ("groceries...
...Jubilate Deo, a robust sacred work by the 16th Century Venetian master Giovanni Gabrieli. The choice of this concluding work was a happy one, balancing the opening Palestrina work of the same period but of completely different style. For the student, the entire program was, in fact, an excellent lesson in the varieties of religious choral music. For the rest of the audience it was equally enjoyable, judging by the extended ovation given the chorus and its congenial conductor...
...most significant lesson that can be drawn from these experiences does not suggest transplanting their systems to Harvard, but shows that students, especially superior students, can grow in education without frequent prodding from grades. Such ideas are also accepted at an institution more readily comparable to Harvard...
Nobody is more surprised by their success than Patience and Prudence themselves. ("People say that our names are obviously contrived, but that's what Mamma named us.") The girls never had a singing lesson; their voices are rather shaky, and even Daddy never gave them a second listen until one day, driving back from Malibu, he decided that the crooning girls were making "a good sound." Says Patience, who does the talking for the pair: "It's all a great big accident." Says their father: "It just came out of left field. It sort of sneaked...