Word: texts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class lesson, the teacher would start the class by calling on two or three students to repeat the material of the previous lesson almost verbatim, and that the second half of the hour would be occupied by the teacher delivering the next section of the textbook, again following the text almost or actually verbatim...
...While nonscience textbooks must be repeatedly revised to keep up with the changing party line, some science and mathematics textbooks have become so "stabilized" as to be "ossified." The most widely used algebra text, for instance, was published in 1888, has undergone only minor revisions since. Even Soviet experts have publicly protested that "the book fails fully to reflect modern science," yet it is still...
...bizarre than the essential one. The various songs seem to have been recorded over the last ten or fifteen years; at least, the quality of Seeger's voice changes remarkably from band to band, which is a little unsettling. There is in addition no apparent relation between either the text or the label and the order in which the listed ballads are sung on side...
...poetic mixture of sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch that makes up a child's world is most beautiful in scenes of Rufus alone written outside the general text: "... (the curtains in the room) ... were touched by the carbon light of the street lamp, they were as white as sugar. The extravagant foliage which had been wrought into them by machinery showed even more sharply white where the light touched, and elsewhere was black in the limp cloth." These scenes were meant to be inserted in the story's sequence a la Faulkner, but Agee died before...
...mean," said the jazzman, pointing to the text, "we goof around here...