Word: taught
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children are now being taught Tourist Appreciation from the fourth grade on so that we natives may serve the visitor properly...
...prose left the effect of unwholesome orchids raised in a mulch of shredded Oxford English Dictionaries. As a travel writer it would be difficult for Durrell to equal Bitter Lemons, his 1957 portrait of Cyprus. But then, Durrell lived for three years on Cyprus-owned a small old house, taught school, eventually worked for the British government as the island drifted into insurrection. Durrell went to Sicily as a tourist aboard the "Sicilian Carousel," a bus tour clockwise around the island...
...treaty). Proponents are encouraged by the defection of Barry Goldwater and S.I. Hayakawa. Since Barry switched, he says that Ronald Reagan has not spoken to him. Explains Goldwater, resignedly: "I would have said that we should fight for the canal if necessary. But the Viet Nam years have taught me that we wouldn't. So we might as well hand it over." During his California senatorial campaign, Hayakawa quipped: "We stole it fair and square." He now insists that he was only being waggish. He thinks the agreement is fair and square...
...rarely dated and was teased for being fat, and he stuck to Bronx Community College for only one year. He spent some of his free time with the New York City police auxiliary service. This did not involve training in the use of firearms or crime detection. He was taught how to direct traffic, administer first aid and perform other rescue-related duties. Fellow trainees considered him introverted but not particularly reclusive...
Sillitoe handles his hero's awakening with compassion-and with none of the prattling about narrowness blighting young lives that could serve as the moral of such a tale. If anything, his message is the reverse: people can learn in spite of what they are taught; the residue of ignorantly directed affection is both pain and the memory of love. At the end William muses: "His father had pushed him into it [the army] but he forgave him for that: we have to forgive our parents if we want our children to forgive us." In a different context, this...