Word: soundness
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...most crucial question facing the company, however, is quite basic: does Rosetta Stone actually work? The company's teaching method is called "dynamic immersion," in which users are taught a new language through images, text, and sound. There is neither translation nor grammar explanations. You learn by listening to people talk in the language you're trying to master, and by reading words on a screen. The images clue you into the meaning of the words. The system eschews rote memorization - Rosetta Stone promises you'll learn a second language in the same way a child learns...
...psychedelia and power pop—have always cast light and darkness about them with equal measure—never more so than on their 2003 magnum opus, “Phantom Power,” where upbeat, frenetic melodies and beats were counterbalanced by wistful lyrics. While its sound is characteristically SFA, “Dark Days/Light Years” is a break from this tradition of point-counterpoint; it is the closest SFA have ever come to genuine, unqualified happiness. The songs on this album revel in a joyous silliness that might seem cutesy in the hands...
Sick kids have always sold well, everywhere from novels like Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury” to commercials for St. Jude’s research hospital. Wray doesn’t have to do the difficult and virtuosic work of setting up a fictional environment in which Will’s violence is forgivable. It’s the schizophrenia defense. Will’s twisted logic unspools over time, but never is there an instant’s doubt that the incident isn’t fully justified by the illness...
...that wasn’t you ate in Kirkland. It consisted of something called scrod, and you had no idea what it was or why they put that sauce on it. Some people told you that this was a Boston specialty, but they didn’t sound entirely convinced. This made you think about going into Boston, but the signs on the T pointing towards vague concepts like “Alewife” and “Braintree” sounded too ominous...
...lady, audibly laughing when she said that she dreamed of becoming the next Elaine Page, the woman widely known to be the “First Lady of British Musical Theater.” One could think of her performance as a sort of anti-synesthetic experience, as the sound that emerged from her corpulence was quite the opposite of what she looks like. Boyle’s voice was youthful, absorbing, assured and remarkably feminine—not a set of qualities that could be ascribed to her appearance. It is this dichotomy in particular—notably...