Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another problem is that Jones, unlike Bruner, never explicitly states his own opinions of the place and nature of education in America today. Bruner's position is unabashedly technocratic and perfectly consistent throughout. All Jones can do, it seems, is react to him, and the results are often ambiguous. For instance, while he accepts Bruner's charge that education equip the young to cope with an ever more-intricate technological world, Jones is "more impressed with modern man's need to comprehend and master what is now his tool of tools-himself." His overriding concern, remember, is to have...
...fudge, marshmallow, pecans). Yes sir, I'll be right with you. My elbows scramble, between dishes of half-eaten food, lifting and wiping. Yes sir. I'll be right with you. Pay at the door. You get what you pay for. Special today on different flavors of sarcasm. I react. I am real. What are you, they ask, what am I. I am a waitress. I am a student. I am a person. Hello, my name...
...months after Picasso's enigmatic fifty-foot sculpture was uncovered in a downtown Chicago plaza, discussion centered frantically on whether it was a woman, a dog, or a bird. Newspapers covered the controversy greedily and people who finally felt they had identified it were at last able to react. When Dylan Thomas spoke at MIT in 1953, his lyrically eccentric speech was met with silence by an audience of what must have been tightlipped students and professors who seemed incredulous that the talk was witty, ingenious blasphemy-and nothing more. The misdirected arguments over the nouvelle vague in cinema...
...Austria-whose aircraft were involved-and other neutral nations, which now are presumably no longer immune to commando attacks on their Israel-bound airliners. The action was also certain to heighten passions in the troubled Middle East. Tel Aviv, sensitive to attacks on its communication lines, was likely to react violently to the sabotage of airliners enroute to Israel...
...hypnotization is eerie enough. There is no swinging pendulum. Masters tells the volunteers to watch his eyes, to sit comfortably, and to react naturally; if they feel that they want to close their eyes, they should. By the time he counts to ten, he says, they will all be asleep...