Word: walke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fraiman's miserly motivation was simple enough. He wanted to help Jewish boys get the learning in school that he had wrested by himself from his Bible and unabridged dictionary. Some 20 years ago, he made a special trip to New York City's Yeshiva University to walk the halls of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and to talk hesitantly with the scholars...
...plan, drawn up last year by a number of fourth year graduate students under the direction of Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design, calls for replacing the current slum area with a mixture of row houses, walk-up and high-rise apartment buildings...
...important only if it essays to be important. If it adopts the manners and philosophy and outlook of a minor expression, then a minor expression it will be. If it aspires to an esthetic of doubletalk, just that will be its position, nothing more, and life itself will walk around it and let it alone...
...attract 3½ million visitors, who will pay a few rubles each for admission. Nearly 170 U.S. firms from 19 states have already contributed products, including musical instruments, 10,000 books, office equipment, a "miracle" kitchen, and a model U.S. house split down the middle so that Russians can walk between the halves. Two features particularly aimed at improving Russian knowledge of the U.S.: seven movie screens simultaneously showing different images on the same subject (e.g., seven views of supermarkets, highway cloverleafs), with a commentary in Russian; an IBM RAMAC brain that will give electronic answers-printed in Russian...
That is how nymphet-nuzzling Victorian Lewis (Alice in Wonderland) Carroll evoked a little girl's seaside idyl. The lines might well apply to nine-year-old Hilary Bray and her discovery, in Devil by the Sea, that little girls who walk along the shore can expect to find more than sand castles. The friendly knee that innocent Hilary encounters is the shank of an old derelict whom she meets at the amusement park in her seaside home town of Henstable. Later that afternoon Hilary sees the old man lead another little girl across the marshes. Watching his "clumsy...