Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Ferebee's entourage-his head caddie, 18-year-old Art Cashetta (who carried clubs for 300 of the 600 holes), his personal physician, Dr. Charles B. Alexander (who fed him orange juice and water), his financial backer, rich Air Conditioner Reuben Trane (who had 3,000 autographed golf balls handed out en route advertising his business), his good-natured better, fat Fred Tuerk-all made merry on Broadway, Super Marathoner Ferebee went to bed, put a sign on his door: "Don't open until Christmas...
...Arithmetic pupils in Nazi schools calculate problems in bombing; art pupils draw pictures of air raids. History pupils are told that Austria's late Chancellor Dollfuss was murdered not by Nazis but in a Marxist uprising...
Influencing people is an art, but even art is measured by scientists' yardsticks nowadays. Last week a psychologist reduced to statistics some surprising facts about the subtle art of changing people's minds through discussion. Dr. Ray H. Simpson, an instructor in Barnard College, made a study of Those Who Influence and Those Who Are Influenced in Discussions.* His guinea pigs were 185 college girls (Dr. Simpson says his findings would probably have been similar if the subjects had been men.) He determined their opinions on many issues, then formed groups of four students each, with differing opinions...
...Simpson's tests were intended to show not only how much but how good an influence discussion has. He concluded that a properly conducted "bull session'' has a good effect, for after his students had discussed works of art, their ratings of those works agreed more closely with experts' opinions. Few subjects realized their opinions had been changed by discussion. One girl told Dr. Simpson she was still of the same mind as before. Yet on her second test she unconsciously swung 17 points toward a consensus of experts...
Years of experience with major and minor college outbreaks have given the local force an uncanny knowledge of how best to get undergraduate goats and how worst to handle undergraduate groups. Student-baiting has become an art, a highly specialized though somewhat contradictory phase of law enforcement. And Thursday night the force outdid itself...