Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-reliant and confident. A three-year-old lies on a rubber mat, arranging a washbasin and cups; a five-year-old, blindfolded with a blue eyeshade, feels a sphere, a cube, a cylinder, following out some blueprint in his mind. Ordinary progressive schools have similar equipment, since U.S. toy manufacturers have stolen many of Maria Montessori's original designs and ideas. But where progressive schools use the tools as one of many activities in which the teacher plays a major role, Montessori schools put the teacher in the background while the didactic teaching materials do much...
...with full air borne freedom, they do hover and float* above their pedestals, attached by almost imperceptible nylon strings. The effect is playful and magical-rather like Collie himself, who combines the hot-eyed zeal of a young Merlin with the twinkle-eyed grin of a boy with a toy. Collie, 25, calls his works spatial-absolutes: spatial because they are floating in space, absolute because "the true essence of a shape, its 100% value" can be fully experienced and appreciated only when it is lifted from its base...
Here Author Gunther, with borrowed research, shows mastery of an important technique of the searching-look book-the compounding of statistics from air and egg white. What counts as an "activity"? Brushing your teeth? Mowing the lawn with a toy gasoline tractor? If five members of one of Dr. Wylie's families watch Gunsmoke, does the researcher chalk up five activities? This is an important element in the art of making the world sound hollow when it is thumped. Another is the unvarying assumption that no one ever does anything because he likes it. If he goes skiing...
...were hung with movable panels that he rearranged to suit his desire, in effect making the studio a spatial work of art. Van der Leek used white in his work not as background but as space that separated his flecks of color, like atoms locked together in the Tinker Toy of their own energy...
...Carlos tossed his treasures away like toy trinkets. The Italian nation al radio-TV network bought the building although the Tiepolos are now unpurchasable state treasures...