Word: taught
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They named their foundling David Brinkley and taught him the meaning of goodness. When he grew up, he became a tough New York reporter. But underneath his not-so-mild-mannered facade, he was the greatest superhero of all, vulnerable to only one substance: Cronkite. And Brinkley was alone. All the other superheroes were dead or useless. Snoopy was missing in action after the Red Baron finally shot him down. Wonder Woman was working for Ms. Magazine. Captain Mantra was in a suburban sanitarium, after swearing off the use of his superpowers when he witnessed the death of his sister...
...genuine scrap of rag, tag and bobtail." His young wife Louisa Gradgrind (Jacqueline Tong, who played Daisy in Upstairs, Downstairs] is as much a victim of the times as her husband's workers. Her father (Patrick Allen), who runs what is thought to be a progressive school, has taught her to ignore all feeling and rely only on facts. "How satisfying is the possession of fact," he says, "which does away with any mystery surrounding our daily life...
Jaynes says all people are taught consciousness in their early childhood, but maintains that parents could as easily train children to become bicameral. Parents "could bring up children now to have a bicameral mind; if they encouraged hallucinations, the child would pick it up," he says. Instead parents encourage children "to think...
...Democratic National Committee and local party officials are putting together energy task forces to sell the White House policy to civic groups. The Administration is plotting ways to get its point across at the National Conference on Energy Education in June, so that good energy habits will be taught at schools in the fall. White House Aide Mark Siegel will meet this week with the president of Rutgers University to discuss services that the Government might supply for the university's seminars on energy. John Denver, bard of the pristine wilds, has been signed up to make...
Jesus Son of Man, by Rudolf Augstein (Urizen; 408 pages; $12.95). Founder and publisher of Der Spiegel, the West German weekly newsmagazine, Agnostic Augstein is an angry product of Catholic schooling. He asks how the church "dares to appeal to a Jesus who never existed, to teachings he never taught, to a mandate he never issued, and to a claim that he was God's son which he never presumed for himself." When it came out in Germany in 1972, the book was attacked by Christian thinkers of all varieties; Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner condemned it as a "frontal...