Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage, the child thinks about everything in terms of his own activities; he believes that the moon follows him around, or that dreams fly in through his window when he goes to bed. Erroneous though these ideas are, they help the child comprehend that actions have causes. In this period, the child is not egocentric by choice. Parents should understand, says the University of Rochester's David Elkind, a leading Piaget scholar, that intellectual immaturity and not moral perversity is the reason why a preschooler continues to pester his mother even after she plainly tells...
...University of Colorado in 1956 and went on a solitary expedition of discovery. It took him to art school in Paris, carried him through the rest of the Continent, and deposited him with a bump back in the States 13 months later. "It was a black period for me," he recalls. "I didn't know what the hell I wanted to do, except get out of California. I'd grown up there, but I always had this image in my head of living in New York. So I took off for the East with some idea of being...
...everybody, of course, likes Bailey. Or the book. One British reviewer called it "a lugubrious epitaph for our waning decade." Muggeridge called the whole effort commercial bananas. Even Bailey doesn't exactly promote it when he says: "I've done a superficial book about a superficial period." Maybe. But perhaps a more apt summing-up of Goodbye is its last-line appraisal of the decade itself-"It was great fun. Sure...
Fuller (167) paced the Crimson onslaught by defeating the Bruins' Dave Beemer on a default after 33 seconds of the second period. The match had been stopped twice because of injuries to Beemer and it was finally decided that he could no longer continue...
After Ron Mark skated through the entire New Hampshire squad on a rinklength rash to score Harvard's tenth goal, and George McManama netted the eleventh early in the final period, there was silence in Snively Arena