Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a child in Switzerland would come home crying to mother that the teacher had given him or her a paddling, the chances are nine out of ten that mama would follow up with more of same. I suggest Miss Graner work over Roscoe some more...
...Army plans to send up a live animal in a satellite, may we suggest that they use the Navy goat...
...great dinosaurs of 100 million years ago probably reproduced slowly, as big modern animals do. So the Soviet scientists suggest that a few centuries of intense cosmic rays from an exploding star may have killed them off. Small, fast-breeding animals, such as the primitive, ratlike mammals of the time, would not be damaged as much. So the mammals survived the siege of cosmic rays. After the supernova had died down, some evolved into forms almost as big as the dinosaurs...
...their time, such old heroes never fade away, still have power in art. Dorothy Norman thinks she knows the reason. "Why," she asks, "do such age-old concepts as Theseus and the Minotaur, Job and Behemoth, continue to speak to us with such undiminished power?" Her reply: "Because they suggest to us not some remote force or personage, but phases of our own most essential struggle with ourselves...
...enough of a premium on the pupils who are different, who are exceptional? Are we developing our geniuses, or are we averaging them out? Are we encouraging some individual thinking, or are we making group decisions paramount? Are we afraid of being branded 'intellectual snobs' if we suggest that the gifted be educated to the limit of their ability? Are we sacrificing our children on the altar of 'rugged groupism...