Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is no clear explanation for this finding," said Rosenthal, "but we can speculate that the teachers' pre-experimental expectancies of the more Mexican-looking boys' intellectual performances were probably slowest...
...Another featured performer on the tour: British Cellist Jacqueline Du Pre, 22 (TIME, March 10), Barenboim's bride of two months...
...There is something in the very name of Florence that suggests refinement and pleasurable emotions," wrote Boston-born James Jackson Jarves, America's first real collector of Italian Renaissance art, in 1852. At the time, few Americans agreed with him. When his collection of 143 Pre-Raphaelite paintings was shown in New York in 1860, critics panned them decisively as "weak and fettered," "the crude expression of Genius grappling with superstition." Snorted one Victorian gallerygoer, viewing a Tuscan religious panel with a gold-leaf background: "More of these d-d ridiculous Chinese paintings...
...picture than a frame. One problem is that Jones, who is a real-life rock-'n'-roll performer but certainly no actor, offers no clue to the charismatic character who could exert such fatal appeal. And Jean Shrimpton, Britain's most celebrated model in the pre-Twiggy days, merely matches him mumble for mumble...
...Israelis go to war they mobilize practically the entire population. Soldiers in civilian shoes and wearing a wild assortment of beach hats ride to the front in milk wagons, garbage trucks, and taxis, many of them have left their shops and farms only hours before to meet at pre-arranged checkpoints. The Arabs have also been singularly impressed with the disorderly advance of the Israeli forces: "Those Jews don't attack according to the book." an Egyptian officer complained to a Syrian after they had both been taken prisoner by the Israelis...