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...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...
...Skip, Jump. With minor local variations, the basic program is the same in all cities practicing integration. In Detroit, for instance, the school system sends out special counselors to help parents with their new blind babies. At three or four, the children go to a preprimary school, where they learn to run, hop, skip, play at sand tables and even fingerpaint. Later, they learn to read and write in Braille and to use a typewriter. By the sixth or seventh grade, they are ready to take their place in normal classes...
...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...