Word: mires
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been an ugly year for news. The mire in Vietnam looked deadlier than ever until March. The new year got off to a bad start--the Pueblo was seized. Early summer was shattered by the murder of Dr. King and the widespread riots that ensued. Then Bobby Kennedy was shot...
...refrain from moralizing, suggesting only that "teachers' expectations of their pupils' performance may serve as self-fulfilling prophecies." But the findings raise some fundamental questions about teacher training. They also cast doubt on the wisdom of assigning children to classes according to presumed ability, which may only mire the lowest groups into self-confining ruts. If children tend to become the kind of students their teachers expect them to be, the obvious need is to raise the teachers' sights. Or, as Eliza Doolittle says in Shaw's Pygmalion, "The difference between a lady and a flower...
...music until 2:30 a.m., then watched a psychedelic light show and underground movies. The next night, they never went to bed at all. With the morning came a "Sun Dance." The musicians played drums, chimes, tom-toms, anything at all, while the audience hopped around in the mire chanting, "Sun! Sun! Sun! Sun!" When the sun obliged, a balloonist named Mark Semich took off in a huge red, white and blue hot-air balloon and rode the wind over the hills. That was supposed to be the lighter-than-air part of the festival, but Semich need not have...
...attempt Adams may have made to impose order was unsuccessful. The Debussy failed to take on any overall shape and, apart from Geoffrey Greenfield's competent flute solo, few distinct lines were extracted from the prevailing mire...
...heart of the play is a simple country maid who hears what she believes to be divine voices. Are they heavenly or hallucinatory? She secures access to France's Dauphin (Edward Zang) and convinces him of her inspired mission to raise his nation from the mire of defeat and British occupation. She dons a soldier's garb, leads the army to lift the siege at Orléans, and then crowns the Dauphin King in Rheims Cathedral...