Word: mats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Michael Ponce de Leon, 42, shows most dramatically how far the print-makers have gone past the conventional idea of pressing paper to a plane surface. To make his Terminus, he printed seven colors off a metal plate slathered with key chains, pebbles, even a straw place mat. He runs wet paper through his hydraulic press, which is capable of 10,000 Ibs. pressure, gets an elaborate multicolor abstract...
Harakiri. Kneeling in starched white death robes on a mat in the sacred garden, the desperate young warrior strips himself bare to the waist. He seizes a short sword, plunges it into his abdomen once. Twice. Three times. Four. He falls over the gory weapon. "Behead me!" he pleads, but before the last merciful blow is delivered he has bitten off his tongue...
...south, including a more effective draft: thousands of able-bodied civilians are still lounging about Saigon. But Khanh can reply that, no matter what he tries to do in the south, the war can hardly be won so long as the north not only infiltrates men and matériel into his country, but provides ideological and strategic guidance to the guerrillas...
Learning one step at a time, at their own pace, they become more self-reliant and confident. A three-year-old lies on a rubber mat, arranging a washbasin and cups; a five-year-old, blindfolded with a blue eyeshade, feels a sphere, a cube, a cylinder, following out some blueprint in his mind. - See EDUCATION, Montessori in the Slums...
Learning one step at a time, at their own pace, they become more self-reliant and confident. A three-year-old lies on a rubber mat, arranging a washbasin and cups; a five-year-old, blindfolded with a blue eyeshade, feels a sphere, a cube, a cylinder, following out some blueprint in his mind. Ordinary progressive schools have similar equipment, since U.S. toy manufacturers have stolen many of Maria Montessori's original designs and ideas. But where progressive schools use the tools as one of many activities in which the teacher plays a major role, Montessori schools...