Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother's lap within reach of a puzzle box. Behind a sliding transparent panel, a toy is placed to snare the subject's attention. To collect this fascinating prize, the baby must hold the panel open while plundering the box of its contents. Bruner's youngest subjects -under one year-typically reach for the toy with one hand, encounter the transparent obstacle and bang on it or give up, either in slumber, indifference or tears. Older babies may manage to slide the panel up with one hand, then grope awkwardly into the interior and, despite the panel...
...well-wrought fragments never quite manage to give the book a consistent motion. What is good, however, is very good indeed. Horace Whipple, Harvey's youngest son, is a gentle, strong, intelligent 14-year-old, but he seems condemned, by some inexplicable self-hatred, to a condition of permanent, sickening clumsiness. He knocks things over, breaks them, hurts himself. "In the kitchen he was carefully watched, and at the Whipples' round dining table, the chairs were always arranged so that Horace's arc of space was several degrees wider than the others'." With a few simple...
True of some, but not of Nathaniel Merrill, the resident stage director of the Metropolitan Opera, whose eleven productions are among the best that the company has ever mounted. The youngest (40) and first American-born director ever to hold that post, Merrill is almost devoid of flamboyance or gimmickry. Unlike such glamorous directors as Franco Zeffirelli and Luchino Visconti, whose personal styles sometimes interfere with musical values, Merrill subordinates himself to the score. Like a musical detective, he searches it and the libretto for clues that will evoke a fresh visualization onstage...
...corollary lesson is that crime pays-or, to quote Mario Puzo quoting Honoré de Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." When Puzo gets around to updating Balzac's ever so slight overstatement, he has the youngest and smartest son of the oldest and smartest New York Mafia boss tell his lank Yankee bride: "In my history course at Dartmouth we did some background on all the Presidents and they had fathers and grandfathers who were lucky they didn't get hanged...
...also seeking ways, without watering down its power, to give more attention to the new left, the young radicals who are entering Italian politics. One instance of such attention: election to the party's Central Committee at week's end of university student Fabio Mussi, 21, the youngest person ever to sit with that august group. Finally, the attack on Russian actions in Czechoslovakia was meant to show Italian voters that the party is unfettered by strings from Moscow. On that score, Bologna provided a convincing demonstration that doubtless raised fresh hesitancy in Moscow about the wisdom...