Word: speak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Essay on the "everyday activist" [Oct. 18]. Finally, someone has pointed out that constructive dissent can and does exist, that for every militant demonstrator there is a "disrupter for good" who contributes far more to our society than do all the yippies from Berkeley to Columbia. Allow me to speak for the doers of my generation with these lines from the Beatles' latest release, Revolution...
...treads a delicate line. On the one hand are his hard-line rivals, ex-Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and Ky's militant allies; on the other, powerful neutralists like Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang. In this situation, Thieu cannot afford to countenance the N.L.F.'s claim to speak for all the people of South Viet...
...subsidiary Fender Rhodes, have developed electronic piano laboratories in which as many as 24 students, each with a piano, can be taught at the same time by a single teacher. All the students use earphones. From a master control panel at his own electronic piano, the teacher can speak or play to all or one of the students, or can listen to one or all over his own earphones. What a youngster plays is usually heard only by himself except at those moments when the teacher happens to switch him on to offer individual ad vice. If the instructor wants...
...damaged hemisphere can be removed before a child has developed right-or left-handedness or has learned to speak, so much the better. In such a case, the question of removing the dominant side does not arise. Says Hendrick: "The brain is very malleable in infants and hasn't established any habits, so there is a better chance of the function of the damaged areas being taken over by the undamaged areas. For instance, early damage might not affect normal speech development. But a child having a stroke later, say at six or seven, is in big trouble...
...hecklers were mostly black kids from the high school which was next door to the Civic Center, and as Wallace began to speak, they started to chant, "Wallace is a pig! Say it now!" They swayed and clapped rhythmically to the chant, and a few boys came to the back and danced to the beat of the chanting. From the other end of the hall, Wallace threatened the hecklers. "You'd better have your day now, because after November 5 you're through in this country." From both sides, the whites howled their disapproval, and shook their fists...