Word: precisionism
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Some educators do believe they see the outlines of change. Seymour Papert, professor of mathematics and education at M.I.T. and author of Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas, invented the computer language named Logo, with which children as young as six can program computers to design mathematical figures. Before they...
Mastrosimone fudges on the answers to some of the questions he raises. If you trap a rapist who planned to violate and kill you, is eye-for-an-eye justice immutable or does the common bond of humanity invoke mercy? First to last, Extremities holds the playgoer transfixed. Robert Allan...
Army-style cots lined the cloakrooms of the Senate, while weary members, waiting for crucial issues to be rushed to a vote, suffered through hours of filibustering by a pair of obscure freshmen. The ever patient Majority Leader, Howard Baker, seemed dazed by the unfolding disasters while his punchy staff...
Trying to downplay the White House's responsibility for such a dismal prospect, Feldstein and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan have argued repeatedly in recent weeks that the U.S. is plagued by a high rate of "structural unemployment," which cannot be cured by the Government's traditional pump-priming...
Although the script calls for a chorus of ignorant, bumbling natives, one doubts either Gilbert or Sullivan had scantily-clad, partying savages in mind. The entire chorus seems a bit disorganized; its members focus too much on their props--assorted alcoholic beverages and pipes--rather than the precision of their...