Word: skips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last four right, you may skip the next three letters to the editor...
...suspicious modern that Homer's epic is not a supernatural swindle but the narrative of a man in trouble-the "first novel," as one translator put it-and that Fitzgerald's English version is in the crisp demotic argot of today. The new translation, however, does not skip or try to improve on the few familiar Homeric cliches: the sea is still "wine-dark" or "fish-cold"; the dawn is still "rosy-fingered...
Skinnerians already use forms of branching, such as speeding up programs for the bright by using "diagnostic" frames ("If you got the last six questions right, skip the next 30"). Though Skinner's method may seem applicable only to fact learning (spelling, vocabulary, scientific terms), it" has already been used for everything from chess and chemistry to history, navigation and philosophy. It is also possible to program the new "concept" approaches in math and physics. The only real limitation is the programer's ability to analyze precisely how to define and achieve mastery of a subject. This seems...
Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). An aerial circus partly narrated by Flying Ace "Pappy" Boyington, in which acrobats skip about on the wings of planes in flight, board a flying aircraft from a moving car, and tell all about it while falling through the air some 6,000 ft. before pulling the parachute ripcord...
...Rolls-Royce does not "chug" no matter what the weather may be. It may skip, falter and, on rare and seldom proven occasions, even fail, but chug-never! It glides...