Word: prods
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...Ertegun and house arranger Jesse Stone had to prod the new guy to drop the crooning (on some early recordings, like "It Should?ve Been Me" and "Greenbacks," he adopts the nasal whisper of a race tout) and get forceful. Charles also learned that he was his best composer. His first pieces were every bit as primitive as Ertegun?s, but his renditions were way more primal. On "Don?t You Know" the lyric boasts a banality worthy of Ahmet?s efforts ("Don?t you know, baby/ Child, don?t you know, baby/ Don?t you know, baby/ Little girl...
...idea that people have any right to keep what they earn. We should indeed hope that people use their wealth to help the poor. We should encourage generosity and compassion. But when we force these values upon people—when we replace charity with coercion and prod people to the donation box with a bayonet—we have committed a violation of individual liberty that conservatives find intolerable...
...even be possible to prod children's intellectual growth. As babies' brains weave their neuronal connections, parents may be able to stimulate, say, the visual or musical ones by exposing kids to picture books or CDs, but it is doubtful that these fortify the brain in any meaningful way. "It's a myth that we can accelerate a child's developmental milestones," says Alan Woolf, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital. "Children are kind of preprogrammed to reach those points." Bruer puts it more bluntly: "The idea that you can provide more synapses by stimulating the child more...
...even be possible to prod children's intellectual growth. As babies' brains weave their neuronal connections, parents may be able to stimulate, say, the visual or musical ones by exposing kids to picture books or CDs, but it is doubtful that these fortify the brain in any meaningful way. "It's a myth that we can accelerate a child's developmental milestones," says Alan Woolf, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital. "Children are kind of preprogrammed to reach those points." Bruer puts it more bluntly: "The idea that you can provide more synapses by stimulating the child more...
...mediocrity of those who "eat their way/toward sleep like nameless oxen." His countrymen, he wrote, "say, No man should be/worthier than average. Thus,/my fellow citizens declare,/whoever would seek/excellence can find it/elsewhere among others." He was sardonically hardheaded: "Hungry livestock,/though in sight of pasture,/need the prod...