Word: models
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...seven German divisions in NATO, says Strauss, are intermeshed "like a Zipper" along the theoretical line of battle with British, Dutch, American and French divisions. Though the German army already has 3,000 U.S.-built tanks, Strauss plans to replace them with a lighter, faster, lower model to be produced jointly with the Italians and French. The army's other key vehicle, in conformity with the German World War II doctrine that infantrymen should ride straight into combat, is an armored personnel carrier (powered by a British engine, and using Swiss and French components) that can charge through machine...
...direction for their lives to take. Whitla quoted one as saying, "what I wanted out of Harvard was something of a personal growth rather than actually an intellectual achievement, although I have had aspirations toward intellectual achievement, of course." In many cases, what they sought was a model, someone who would motivate them toward becoming a particular kind of person. Whether or not the student did in fact find a man on the faculty to identify with, he generally assumed that this process was a necessary part of finding his own identity. Thus a disappointed student said: "If there...
Defining structure as the model each of us builds of our knowledge, Bruner said, "We put together everything we know in the way that we think the world operates. Then we spin it just a little faster than the world goes and we can make predictions. The purpose of education is to teach a person the techniques of building and using these models...
...third issue is intrinsic function. "Needs and motives have means of determining the model." Bruner declared...
Another emphasis this year is on realism, from talking dolls with a vocabulary bigger than some of the little girls who will cradle them to Aurora's 1960-model electric-powered cars. Scaled down to 2 in. in length, the cars can be raced around a miniature track, need a deft touch on the controls to keep them from flipping over. Gilbert makes a bigger, stock-car racing set. Sales of multi-detailed plastic hobby kits are burgeoning, enable boys and girls to produce in miniature everything from auto engines to a transparent Visible Woman, complete with interchangeable parts...