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...such as -?????. Each of the 44 I.T.A. symbols represents only one sound, and children tackle I.T.A.-spelled words in full confidence that what they see in print is what they say in sound. As for the actual teaching method, teachers may use either phonics or look-say or a blend of both. "I.T.A. is not a new method of teaching," explains Inventor Pitman, "but it is a new medium of teaching...
...circus to watch a dancing bear," said the moderator cynically. Perhaps some had, but Malcolm X was no dancing bear, no exotic specimen of a Near-Eastern religion, no man to be clinically observed. Flanked by three docile bodyguards Malcolm baffled his Leverett House audience with an oddly-paced blend of demagoguery and rationality, haughtiness and humor, sham history and acute analysis, utopian policies and realpolitik...
...faith, Communism's appeal depends in equal measure on the down-to-earth accomplishments of its past and its rosy, teleological view of the future. From the blend of both elements, in an economy guided largely by the theories of a 19th century visionary who knew next to nothing of economics, might well have come a close approximation of Dostoevsky's view of 19th century Russia, a "sublime, universal, ordered chaos." In fact, the Soviet economy is only moderately chaotic. Its high-priority sectors can be impressively efficient, though not so efficient perhaps as the Russians, with their...
...Projects should be designed so that they blend into their surroundings...
...from pills have created a new industry. They can spend up to $480 for a hospital-type bed that cranks up at head and knees, down at the buttocks and feet. For $69.95 they get a gadget, the size of a table radio, that makes white noise-"a scientific blend of all sounds"-to drown out intruding racket. Other machines swish like the restless sea, or, in midwinter, hum like summer's air conditioner. There is a whole catalogue of ear plugs, His and Her reading lights, even a togetherness cigarette holder so that two can smoke...