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...TIME, Aug. 7) ... I suggest that the clue to this nightmare, as well as many other books that in view of the paper shortage should never have seen the light, can be found in the couplet of Pope: Such labored nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1944 | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fiji Medicine Men | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hazel's Rival? | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Higher Unlearning in America | 10/8/1940 | See Source »

...asked me to do anything. I don't think I was arrogant. I didn't have anything to be arrogant about. . . . Maybe I didn't know just how to act in a home with a mother and father and sister. I had about six weeks to unlearn my whole life and learn it all over again." Father Flanagan, who had learned of the matter while in Europe, arrived in Paterson after Peter Christopolus reached Omaha. He tried to get in touch with the Strengs, was unsuccessful. Said he last week: "It is regrettable that Mr. Strengs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Orphan's Return | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

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