Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Please, let's have something that stretches us a bit; let's have something that makes us wake up and even keeps us awake, because television so many times is a kind of soporific-we use it to go to sleep. Please,' they say, 'teach us; we want to know things...
...announced that the deal was with Russia itself, not Czechoslovakia. Abruptly the U.S. lost patience, withdrew its offer to help finance the Aswan Dam. In retaliatory fury, Nasser seized the Suez Canal crying: "Americans, may you choke to death on your fury." Three months later, determined not just to teach him a lesson but to topple him, the Israelis, British and French attacked Suez...
...have no emotional or physical disabilities, the public schools in many cities now provide special classes. There the slow learners acquire such basic skills as reading, arithmetic, telling time, using the telephone, handling money. With patient training, most of these youngsters may eventually find jobs. Some schools teach their girl students how to put on lipstick and dress attractively; boys learn how to call a girl for a date, and small groups, after careful instruction, venture out to dine in restaurants. For the "trainables," with IQs of 30 to 50, some of whom must be shown how to tie their...
...second act the plot, the actors, and to some extent the music warmed up. Herbert Parsons as a proper professor was a charming satirist as he sang of the professor's duty to learn, not teach. As his lonely man, Duane Murner gave one of the few professional performances of the evening with "Section Man's Lament...
Steyskal, who was at the Divinity School in 1953-54, made the threat on grounds that the University refused to grant him a professorship to teach religion. He had been writing to get a position for a year and a half...