Word: visualizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Paul Staley gave a short pop talk, while Lois Ebeling. Miss Radcliffe '54, and Wesley Piersol '55, lent visual encouragement...
...week, and gave homework assignments to the fathers. On Sept. 1, the school started regular classes in a borrowed building. The mothers took turns conducting the play activities and the classes, backed up by Mrs. Covey's early morning instruction periods. The clinic's teaching methods (visual aids, constant repetition of sounds, the vibrations of a piano) have been copied by the children themselves. One little boy taught his sister, who has normal hearing, to make the sound "oo" by demonstrating it. Another clinic pupil, a girl, has her baby brother practicing "p" by blowing against a paper...
Someone who knows nothing at all about Chicago will still find that Algren's ability to produce visual image in every paragraph makes this an interesting work. At the same time that reader will find parts of the book completely unintelligible; he will not know who Algren is talking about, what incidents are involved, or even when it all took place. For Algren has criss-crossed his pages with symbols, quick references and innuendo about things only a resident of Chicago and reader of its newspapers could really appreciate...
More Pies. Republic's teachers geared the lectures to a 10th-grade level, and used plenty of visual aids. Actual pies were cut up to show how a company's sales dollar is divided into wages, costs and profits; additional pies were pulled from drawers to show that more production is required to produce more shares for labor & capital...
Viewers may remember such visual treats as President Truman's airy "Let's go, boys" gesture to California's Governor Warren and San Francisco's Mayor Elmer Robinson, as he left the platform. Equally memorable were the lethal exchanges between Gromyko, as inflexible as granite, and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, as impersonally stern as a veteran headmaster. Poland's bristling Stefan Wierblowski provided drama when, overruled, he remained on the stand, quivering with indignation and spluttering protests, but powerless against the Olympian calm of Acheson...