Also, Rove's pride in his knowledge of politics is so great that he has an evidently irresistible impulse to dispute, correct, or improve upon virtually anything anybody says on the subject, in a tone that's half rehearsed lecture, half teasing one-upmanship.
At first Graham offers a conventional procedural, as Smith and his straight-backed recruits get to grips with the Angry Brigade's anti-establishment philosophy using textbooks from an anarchist bookshop and borrowed experimental LPs – half wry sociology lecture, half Life on Mars.
George's classes were half lecture, half free discussion and conceptualizing, with George or his assistant Capt.
Among the most famous is a landmark Cornell University study from 2003 called "The Laptop and the Lecture," wherein half of a class was allowed unfettered access to their computers during a lecture while the other half was asked to keep their laptops closed.
This morning we had a lecture for half an hour on transport etc in England and was a most idiotic lecture too.
But Mr Miliband insisted that it would not be that dreary: "It won't be two Fabian Society lectures and half a pint of beer, as somebody suggested".
His speech was delivered at Net speed, and so convincingly that the moderator promised the wide-eyed audience to play back the tape of his lecture at half speed.
After the didactic lecture, roughly half of the students chose the correct answer (0.49 and 0.54 for EXP and CON on pretest 2 results, respectively), so there were substantial gains.
In his later career he was known for the fresh, original, combative precision of his essays and lectures, his half-century of critical engagement with Freud and his illuminating explorations of often neglected aspects of Wittgenstein's later works.
A while ago, at an IEA Hobart Lunch lecture, I half-jokingly hypothesized the notion of the BBC launching a national newspaper, delivered to every home in the country, free of advertising, and with impeccably impartial news reporting.
