Word: skips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good Listeners. "If a joke lays a complete egg," says George Burns, "we might put in two or three people to carry it along." The laugh canner's purest technique (Ozzie & Harriet) is to skip the fallible human element altogether and, as the trade has it, "lay the laugh track in cold." Says Producer Alex Gottlieb: "A good film editor can lay in a laugh track from the library that comes out sounding more authentic than live laughter. After all, people aren't expert laughers, but the sound effects man is an expert listener...
...trained mind at work. Breathing heavily, Charlie coaxes elusive answers out of odd corners of his brains by talking to himself, muttering little associated fragments of knowledge. Like a boxer staying down for a count of nine, he takes all the time he can possibly get ("Let's skip that part, please, and come back to it"). When trying to identify the character in La Traviata who sings the aria Sempre libera, he half-whispered: "She sings it right at the end of a party given by ... What's her name! Soprano. Her name is like . . . Violetta. Violetta...
Unpressured to vote Democratic (or Republican), Lausche at one point had announced that he would skip the embarrassments of the opening session. But it struck him that playing hooky would rob him of seniority in a body where tenure is next to godliness. Provided that he was on hand for the first session, his rank as an ex-governor would give him seniority over two other new Democrats: Pennsylvania's ex-Mayor Joseph S. Clark Jr., 55, and Idaho's Frank Church, 32, holding his first elective office. By alphabetical precedence he would also outrank the other...
...Skip or Enrich. Though the fad is still largely in the talking stage, scores of U.S. cities have joined the talent hunt. But once the talented student has been identified by elaborate tests and teacher reports, the experts disagree on the best way of treating him. In some places there are special schools for the bright (e.g., The Bronx (N.Y.) High School of Science). Some cities have set up special classes; others allow a few gifted students to accelerate or skip grades. But since the experts do not agree on whether acceleration or segregation might do the talented more harm...
...voice followed me, humbly and at a distance like a spaniel. "Monique, why did you skip class? We were studying the Critique of Pure Reason. It was interesting, but I think Kant offers a false dichotomy. The only viable solution is to provide a synthesis in which experience is impregnated with rationality and reason is ordained to empirical data...