Word: unlearn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only requirement for the Central Medical School, at Suva in the Fiji Islands, is the equivalent of a good U.S. high-school education. Students are given four years of anatomy and surgery. One thing students find hard to unlearn: their fear of native witch doctors...
This spastic inspiration is not something Pianist Donegan has learned. In fact, she spent a lot of time trying to unlearn it. Dorothy was born on Chicago's dusky South Side, still lives there. Her father is a dining-car chef. When Dorothy was eight, her mother, who had always wanted to play the piano but could never get near enough to one to learn how, decided that, come what may, Dorothy must have lessons. Dorothy got them at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, where she studied classical music for four years. The Conservatory's high-brow teachers...
...they painted. One may gather that if we are to join Mr. MacLeish in the Word hunt, we are to disregard truth and teach only that which serves our particular dogma. If we have learned an unpleasant fact which does not fit with our sympathies then we are to unlearn it as quickly as possible. The Yale News...