Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expected arose in London and Paris without any justification except imperialist reasons, the habit of sucking the blood of nations and stealing their rights. As for France and the vulgarity of the French Foreign Minister, I will say nothing. I leave it to the Algerians to give them a lesson in good manners." Then, in an ominous hint at the shape of things to come, he said: "I strongly warn the imperialist countries that their evil games will be reason for disturbing free navigation in the Suez Canal." Supplement to Sanctions. By week's end the Western powers...
...recurrent cycle of life is captured in the tidal swarming of a cloudlike school of silvery pilchards, their glinting symphony of movement matched by the sparkling (though often deafening) score of young Composer Clinton Elliott. But as a facts-of-life lesson, some children may find Secrets confusing. How will Mother explain the convulsive spectacle of a father sea horse in labor, struggling to eject from his pouch the young sea colts hatched from eggs deposited there by his carefree mate...
...Conference generally agreed with Saudek that television leaves much to be desired as an educational medium. Yet they emphasized that, in the words of Edward Stanley of N.B.C., "orthodox education as such is not suited for broadcast to the general American public." Instead of just presenting a daily lesson in the conventional form, "television must illustrate the lesson by adding material that is not ordinarily available in the classroom," according to Herold C. Hunt, Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare...
...lesson to be learned from The King and I lies in the fact that two most effective scenes are the two simplest. No line of Goldwyn girls endlessly kicking as they fade toward infinity nor any impeccably starched and waltzing Corps Diplomatique nor all the magnolia-scented balls that Darryl Zanuck ever threw had half the grace of Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr romping alone to "Shall We Dance...
Rembrandt also inherited a hardy tradition of Dutch portrait painting. His achievement was to take the stiff, official portrait, change it into a dramatic scene, filled with inner excitement that holds the spectator's eye even today. His first great success. The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, done when he was only 26, established him as one of the foremost painters of Amsterdam, and brought him a flood of portrait commissions from the city's wealthy burghers...