Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restless man with a short attention span, Jordan is unable to sit still long, and now he paced the floor restlessly. He was wearing blue tennis shoes and white shorts, his shirttail hanging out. His body is thick and hard, his face tanned from daily jogging and tennis. He hasn't changed much in four years, still frisky, fresh-faced...
Rounding up the usual suspects in the learning crisis is easy enough. The decline of the family that once instilled respect for authority and learning. The influence of television on student attention span. The disruption of schools created by busing, and the national policy of keeping more students in school longer, regardless of attitude or aptitude. The conflicting demands upon the public school system, which is now expected not only to teach but to make up for past and present racial and economic injustice...
...been cut nearly in half during the years from 1968 to 1977. Why? Often simply because students refuse to do them. Blame for the shift in student attitude has been assigned to such things as Watergate, the Viet Nam War, the Me culture. Also to television, which reduces attention span. Now there are 76 million TV homes in the U.S., vs. only 10 million in 1950. By age 18, the average American has spent an estimated 15,000 hours in front of the set, far more time than in school. Whatever the figures, teachers agree, television is a hard...
...campfires, protest organizers erected a narrow bridge across a pond near their campsite, a bridge essential for the next day's march toward the fence. Police arrive at 8 a.m. sharp to take it down, a crew of 30 watching while two cops pull apart the crude span. And no sooner do they march away through the woods than a few of the protesters, out for an early morning walk, lay planks back across the trickle of brackish water and cross--their goal to collect as many "No Trespassing" signs as possible. Before long the police return, and tear...
...bestowed little love on his children after they passed the age of cherubic portraiture. Born over a span of 28 years, they were: Paulo, his only legitimate child, by Dancer Olga Koklova (he died in 1975); Maya, by Marie-Thérèse Walter; and Claude and Paloma, by Franchise Gilot. One of the few paramours or wives with any pretension to intellectuality, Gilot (now married to famed U.S. Scientist Dr. Jonas Salk) was co-author of a bitter book, Life with Picasso, in which she calls him a manipulator of human beings: "He loved only one thing...