Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Ignoring such "barriers" as rhyme and meter, Koch emphasized repetition, which is more natural to children. More important, he got the children to express their "secret feelings, their fantasies-turning them on to their imaginations." As he puts it: "There are lots of kids who have never been praised for saying the sky is purple." His first success came when he asked the class to begin each line with the words "I wish . . ." When Koch read their wish poems aloud, the children began waving, blushing, laughing and jumping up and down. Koch recalls: "It was the first time they realized...
Some things mean so much to us We can't express them well. We can't put into words the thoughts Our hearts would like to tell. So when you read this Christmas card That comes to you today I hope you'll read between the lines The things my heart would...
...absolute lie. Of course, most students think we shouldn't go on unless they invite us. They can have as many demonstrations, sit-ins, lay-ins as they want, and we will never look into it. I think students have a perfect right to dissent and to express their views through proper channels. But they ought not to resolve their differences by throwing bricks and bottles on the streets...
...about the economical situation. About the morale of the people-people who are free in order to express their opinion and their sentiments...
Pattakos says that the Greeks are free to express their ideas. Another story from Greece: In the Byzantine Cafe in Athens, a customer ordered lobster, which is astakos in Greek. The waiter changed the wording slightly and ordered "Pattakos." He was jailed for three days...