Word: centering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week before a convention in Buffalo of the National Council of Teachers of English, Dr. Stella S. Center, director of New York University's reading clinic, reported: 1) what constitutes bad reading habits, 2) how they may be corrected. Dr. Center, 60, who is co-chairman of the English department in New York City's Theodore Roosevelt High School, started three years ago to cure bad habits of the 60% of students who came to the school below par in reading. So successful were these remedial classes that they were extended to other high schools and last...
...Center's classes came an international banker because he had difficulty reading financial pages and stock tables, an actor who could not read his lines, an engineer who could read nothing but his technical jargon; a young reading-cripple with a high I. Q., who walked in. sat down and calmly announced: "I am a problem child. I must not be excited." After a few weeks of training the banker could get through his financial pages, the engineer could read 550 words a minute of general literature, a secretary who had never read a book of her own accord...
First step in Dr. Center's clinic is to measure hops, fixations and regressions with an ophthalmograph. which takes motion pictures of a reader's eye movements. The resulting picture looks like sets of stairs, recording the eye's stops and jerks. If the reader is efficient, the stairs are regular...
...Center's methods are not entirely mechanical, however. She helps readers choose books that interest them, pick out key words and phrases as clues to understanding...
Socialites and dance-lovers, wandering this week through eight big galleries in Rockefeller Center's International Building, found rare things in rich profusion: Sculptor Hoffman's plaques of Pavlova and such of her studies of ceremonial dancers as the Mongolian Bowman (see cut); designs and sketches by such famed Europeans as Christian Bérard, Mariette Lydis, Giorgio De Chirico, Andre Derain. Pablo Picasso, Georges Roualt, Léon Bakst; drawings made by Nijinsky in his Swiss sanatorium; masks from Africa and masks by W. T. Benda; sculpture by Rodin, sketches of Isadora Duncan by Abraham Walkowitz; photographs...