Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brecht may have set his play in the seventeenth century, but Galileo's persecution at the hands of the Church remains a thin disguise for Brecht's critique of the Nazis...
...short forms of the vowels a and i. Then they learn, purely by sight, a few such basic words as yes, no, on, the. With this equipment, when they turn to their readers they can read short sentences, sounding out such words as ant, man, pin, thin. In the first seven books, which average first-graders will complete in a school year, they learn roughly 375 words by sounding them out, often using clues offered by simple cartoon-like drawings. None of the words involve a phonetic conflict, such as the long o sound in doe, dough...
Nevertheless, Sullivan kept quizzing kids, found that they could be coaxed to chuckle first over impish-looking drawings of red ants, a fat man, even a thin pin, later over a frolicsome poodle named Nip and a red-headed moppet named Walter-all illustrating stories with plots that children found engaging. Laboriously trying out frame after frame on children and rejecting those that led either to boredom or too many wrong answers, Sullivan's team completed 21 textbooks-three series of seven, roughly intended for the first three grades...
Only Ashes. At the river, a high pyre had been erected. As Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Soviet Premier Kosygin and scores of other foreign dignitaries watched, the priests sprinkled Shastri with rose petals and stacked sandalwood logs across his white-shrouded body. A torch of thin twigs was handed to Shastri's eldest son, 32-year-old Hari Krishnan. According to custom, he walked three times around his father's body, then put the flame to the pyre. Priests poured on ghee and incense. Within seconds, the flames erupted, illuminating the wisp of white under the logs. Soon...
Cutting through the film's whimsy, though, is Tors's awareness that the animal kingdom is a world of enchantment for the very young. His human characters are paper-thin, but his jungle creatures are real and twice as appealing as any in a picture book. But not for sophisticates, whatever their...