Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David Jan '97, who took the class during his first year, says instructors sought to increase students' understanding, not to spoon-feed answers to them...
Unfortunately, as the Tofflers have gone on pointing out during the past 15 years, the third-wave pioneers are still stuck with all those vestiges of a second-wave society: big corporations, big government bureaucracies, smarty pants in mass communications who stubbornly think that information remains theirs to spoon-feed to the unwashed. In Microcosm (1989), Gilder reaches, by a somewhat different route, the same dismissal of old-line thinking and technology that the Tofflers do. In a chapter titled "The Death of Television," he writes, "In an age when computers will be responsive to voice, touch, joysticks, keyboards, mice...
...down the corridor, and through a slot in the door Simpson is handed a breakfast of scrambled eggs, potatoes, two slices of wheat bread and coffee brewed in a stainless-steel kitchen vat so wide it uses a bed sheet for a filter. His only utensil is a plastic spoon...
Joshua L. Oppenheimer '96, a founder of the Association for the Absence of Rabid Moralism (AFARM)--a direct response to AALARM--remembers seeing Wasinger's not-so-Christian behavior in line in the Eliot House dining hall. When Wasinger's friend dropped a spoon, Wasinger kicked it to a dining services worker to pick up off the floor, Oppenheimer says, and the worker couldn't believe...
...Princeton, New Jersey, and at London's Royal National Theatre. "I am not remotely taking on Wharton's persona," Worth says. "I never met her. I don't know what her voice was like. I am giving feeling to her words. After having so much plot and emotion spoon-fed to them by theater or opera, audiences seem to like having to concentrate on those words and use their imaginations...