Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michelangelo Pistoletto, 33, is displaying shiny sheets of steel, on which he has pasted blown-up, painted photographs of men and women. Visitors are reflected in the steel mirrors so that, just for an instant, they are fooled into thinking they are part of a parade, or trying to read someone else's paper-and that the painted figures are really real...
...Eventually, he lined up a group, which today includes teachers, studio men, students and one lawyer, that could feel at home with everything from a quasi-classical passacaglia and fugue to raga time. After months of rehearsals, he brought in a score in 3⅔ time, and the band read it at sight. "That was the turning point," recalls Ellis. "The time barrier had been broken...
There is a horrifying sameness to books about Nazi concentration camps. To have read once about Auschwitz or Belsen or Dachau ought to be enough for anyone who does not want to hide from facts. Yet each successive volume uncovers new variations on the theme of human bestiality. This fictionalized account is unusual in that it begins with the agonized if rather naive question of why the Jewish victims of the Nazis did not try to fight against their doom. It ends up-almost, it sometimes seems, against the author's intent-as an account of triumph amidst total...
...happy to be able to say that I found the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute course extremely helpful to me. It increased my reading speed and rate of comprehension tremendou'sy. To be able to read quickly and retain the essence of the material is particularly important to me since the amount of reading I must do daily as a senator is voluminous. I feel that the course has been of great benefit to me in my official work...
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