Word: think
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time is not so far off as one might think, but the idea of machines for teaching brings up many problems not noticed at first glance. Grading systems would probably have to be greatly revised; the entire concept of education by coercion, motivation, threat and sweat would have to be reexamined; and the application of scientific principles to secondary education would have to be considered. Professor Skinner himself has said: "In the light of our present knowledge a school system must be called a failure if it cannot induce students to learn except by threatening them not to learn...
...mild concussion just after 1 p.m. when her bicycle skidded on Massachusetts Avenue near Waterhouse Street. Lola M. Lloyd '62, who was knocked unconscious for a few minutes, said afterwards, "I don't know whether I slipped on a trolley track or was hit by a car; but I think my wheel just got caught in a wet track...
Zendie could feel the little vein on the inside of her wrist pulsing. Felipe sat across from her. "God," Zendie said, feeling his dark eyes on her cheek as she looked out over the lake, "I think I'll never leave this place. Oh, look at the boats, they're like swans; and look at the swans, they're like white-caps. Oh," she read, lighting cigarette and penciling a notation in the margin...
...reminded of Bouree, and Lotta, and Vieri. And of course I must think of Belasz and Tolespa, and dear little Treyispa: and Grondi and Bartolo. God, Felipe," Zendie said, "those afternoons in the piazza, and the evenings on the Bierenspitzenplatz, and the mornings at La Dolope," the girl read, tapping her cigarette drily over the ashtray. The white-caps are like diamonds, the girl enunciated...
...kind of Fielding's Guide to the national mentality that can spawn a Tommy O'Driscoll. The salient points to remember about Ireland, according to Author Tracy, are 1) that its public attitudes never have any bearing on its private ones: "It is the land of Double Think and Double Speak" where ''words are used as . . . a device for concealment": 2) that the main concern of every Irishman is saving face, and 3) that no Irishman is truly happy except when he is "streeling" from bar to bar, going to a funeral or engaging...