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...modern kitchen, all the cook must do is read the recipe, mix the ingredients, set the stove, and give the pot an occasional stir. To psychologist B.F. Skinner, the classroom is like a modern kitchen and "there is no reason why the school room should be any less mechanized than ... the kitchen." The teacher should remain, but only as cook...
...tenor makes a fresh debut . . . Exclamations of pleasure and surprise greet his first melody . . . yet this is but the prelude to the emotions he is to stir before the evening is over . . . A number comes during which the daring artist, stressing each syllable, gives out some high chest notes with a resonant fullness, an expression of heart-rending grief, and a beauty of tone that so far nothing had led one to expect. A petrified silence reigns in the house, people hold their breath, amazement and admiration are. blended in a mood akin to fear. There is, in fact, reason...
...some time the Boston amateur historians have suspected that there is, indeed, a network of tunnels burrowing under the Common. These have all been blocked off for so many years that everybody had forgotten about them. But the new discovery has created a stir of renewed cow-tunnel interest among Boston-folk. Lots of people are coming to see. Since a new building will soon be on top of the cow-tunnel, and an underground city parking lot will soon be beneath it, there is not much time left. The address is 4-5-6 Park Street...
...strong coattails will be available in November, and that the presidency is assured for the next four years. In that state of mind, and with only a series of nervous glances over their shoulders at the farm situation, the Middle East and the electrocardiograph, many Republicans prefer not to stir up the voters. The always divided Democrats are split worse than usual. While the division is most dramatically illustrated by the civil rights issue, it goes deep into the basic political cleavage of left and right. Result: no concerted, positive movement on either side of the aisle...
...elephant rides and put them up in his guest house. In France's Dijon, knowing the U.S. tourists' unquenchable thirst for cold drinks, the Terminus Hotel has achieved a master stroke of plumbing: faucets in every room dispense chilled red or white wine. In Rome, bartenders will stir up a martini molto secco at the drop of a 500 lira note; half a dozen short order restaurants are pushing Southern fried chicken and barbecued spare ribs with the slogan: "When in Rome, do as Americans do." In Spain, Europe's last stronghold of the "matrimonial" double...