Word: text
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stuff, there is dead track so the student can repeat aloud. Words are taught in progressively larger learning blocks ("I want," "I want a glass," "I want a glass of water"). In this way the student masters speech melody (intonation and speed) as well as vocabulary. By following the text as he plays the record, the student learns to read, too. But the real goal is speaking ability...
...Japanese who doesn't speak Japanese." Last week, however, all Japan was mooning over the tale of the little geisha who years ago had first snubbed and then snared the rich American. 0-Yuki's story had run an unprecedented 260 installments in three newspapers. The text was supported by pictorial tearjerkers, such as George and O-Yuki sleeping on Japanese-style mats in Paris while she dreams of far-off Japan...
...American Past, by Roger Butterfield, was an eye-opening collection of 1,000 pictures, the best one-volume pictorial history of the U.S. around. The accompanying text was almost of necessity an oversimplification of U.S. history. In the field of nostalgia, I Remember Distinctly, another big picture book, by Frederick Lewis Allen and his wife, showed the nation with its manners down between wars. After seven years in Mexico, Ralph Roeder turned up with Juarez and His Mexico, possibly the best written and ablest history of the year...
...miles a day. In spite of his regard for the Koran he concluded: "To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. . . . Here, I think, is a text for some eloquent sermon on the virtues of Christianity" (both Patton and Halsey were Episcopalians...
...book contains 1,000 admirably selected photographs and cartoons, 125,000 words of text. The text and captions are in a lively, LIFE-like manner (Butterfield is an ex-LiFE editor...