Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are two exhibitions in Cambridge this month which are totally independent of each other but which invite comparison. One is the work of a student, the other of a lifetime. Their qualities are unlike and their eras disparate. Oddly, their weaknesses are much the same and a lesson lies therein...
Babies bawled, while their parents attacked box lunches. A little boy fell into an artificial lake and sputtered up, screaming. A little girl got a hula-hoop lesson from her dad. Linda Christian, Ty's exwife, who had put on such a spectacular performance at the Italian burial of her good friend. Auto Racer Alfonso de Portago, made Hollywood headlines by staying away from the funeral at Debbie's request. If the crowd had any disappointment, it was that only one woman fainted...
This sequence gives an example of the manner in which the student's mental responses are guided and aimed at a particular end in each "lesson." The more cogently selected and clearly connected each frame in the series is, the more effective the program of the machine in instilling the intended knowledge...
...opportunities Mrs. Pusey has to meet students is at breakfast after the early service at Christ Church, but even then the President always has to rush off" to learn the Old Testament lesson for the service at Memorial Church. "This fall," she continues, "a student asked us down to his House for dinner. He had quite a meal planned and wanted to cook it over the fireplace. It sounded tempting, but we just didn't have the time...
...spectacle of a public execution has always drawn a crowd, and this one will probably be no exception, even though the witnesses must pay for the privilege. But in the post-mortem many witnesses will wonder what is the meaning of the painful lesson they have just been read. Is it a sermon on the wages of sin? Not really. The heroine, according to the script, is not punished for something she did, but for something she did not do. Is it an attack on the practice of capital punishment? Possibly. But the script spends no sympathy...