Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good enough just to read the stuff, of course," says one expert. "You've got to know how to read it, and you have to read it all, day after day. You can't let yourself get bored, and you have to keep the memory drum whirling all the time. When you see something a hundred times over in the same phrase or the same adjective, and they change it, you take note. One variation, or even two, might not mean a thing. So you hold it in your mind and keep reading. If the change is repeated...
...said that "a nation that has hitched its destiny to the star of education and pours billions of dollars into the enterprise is collectively crazy if it does not try to find out the result of all this effort. We don't know whether most ninth-graders can read and comprehend a typical newspaper paragraph, whether most high school graduates know more or less about more or fewer things than high school graduates did 20 years...
Students claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, sixteen hours a day, I will finish the reading by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for seventeen hours...."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levin...
Still, some anti-Johnson material remained. Only in recent weeks was Manchester, at the urging of his publisher, induced to modify a malicious passage that hinted at Johnson's being a violent man. In checking many sections of the manuscript, Jackie Kennedy read great chunks of it-often with considerable surprise. After reading Manchester's claim that there was an ugly feud between the Kennedy party and Johnson on the flight back to Washington from Dallas, she said: "I had no awareness that this was going on. All I could think of was my husband in that coffin...
...read on our front page of a heated discussion that took place, recently, in the past few days, in fact, preceding a decision of the residents of the various Radcliffe houses concerning the extension or the further continuance of the present system of the allotting Parietal hours among the various days of the week, which was decidedly on the side of the opponents of extension of the parietal periods until the reversal of ambient sentiment switched the balance of opinion to those advocates of extension of parietals negating the heretofore previous situation which is outlined above, which appears the only...