Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much as we would like to pour 500,000 people into Washington this weekend to shut down that city, the movement has neither the leadership, the organization, nor the network of news dissemination to make such a protest effective...
BEFORE he discovered Sesame Street last year, Associate Editor Stefan Kanfer, like many parents, had little faith in the educational value of television. "My first reaction whenever I saw my kids in front of the set," he recalls, "was to distract them somehow until I could shut it off. Then I noticed what they were watching, and pretty soon I found I was watching Sesame Street with them. When they peeled off to play from time to time, I was still there watching it. Now I even watch it when the kids aren't home...
...exhibition: Dahl Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. Friedrich's landscapes, with their pulsating white moons, flat dark seas and clawing oaks, personify the sense of an immanence of God in nature that was the core of his art. "A picture," Friedrich wrote, "must not be devised but perceived. Shut your corporeal eye, so that you see first your picture with your spiritual eye." It was a German parallel to William Blake's observation: "I Question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I would Question a Window concerning a Sight. I look thro...
...sample poll, the CRIMSON deduced that most girls and all Harvard men favor the following proposal: twice a week, Wednesday evening and Sunday afternoon respectively, exclusive of reading periods and other dour situations, Radcliffe girls should agree either to tidy their rooms for guests or to keep their doors shut, and to keep out of the corridors while in a state of undress; in return, those girls with male guests should keep their voices lowered and their manners impeccable...
...There is no open and shut case that violence on television is necessarily harmful to children. It is not easy to prove that what is seen on television is a cause of pathology," Kagan said. "But there is sufficient cause to believe that it is harmful...