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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quote me [Dec. 31] as saying: "We are all Keynesians now." The quotation is correct, but taken out of context. As best I can recall it, the context was: "In one sense, we are all Keynesians now; in another, nobody is any longer a Keynesian." The second half is at least as important as the first...
Knowledge in Bits. All of this is organized according to the learning theories of Harvard Behavioral Psychologist Burrhus Frederic Skinner (TIME, March 24, 1961). Skinner taught pigeons to play pingpong by breaking the action into tiny steps, immediately rewarding each correct step with a grain of corn. This led to the idea of giving children knowledge in atomized "bits," and testing each bit immediately by an easy leading question. When the student responds with the right answer, he gets a glow of pleasure-his grain of corn. The technique requires some mechanical device (often a teaching machine) to hide...
Threadbare Tires. A onetime editor of the Daily Princetonian, Ridgeway, 29, put in a stint on the Wall Street Journal before coming to the New Republic. He makes sure that he ge'ts his facts correct and avoids the doctrinaire "New Left" politics that fills much of the rest of the magazine. "I don't think things should be cast in black and white," he says. "These subjects are complicated and difficult to get at. What I want to do is take a point of view that is unreported and provide people with that different perspective...
President Johnson is correct when he says there is "little magic in the number two." But what was a compromise in 1787 has worked effectively in the past and seems well-suited for the complicated problems of governing the United States in the future. A two-year term in the House is more desirable than any of the proposed varieties of a four-year term, and should be retained...
...lavishly litigious state with a booming population that in 25 years has tripled to 18.6 million. In 1965 the court considered 2,553 petitions, held year-round hearings on 165 cases. This year's cases range from conscientious objection (is it an "infamous crime"?), to whether Negroes are correct in charging that California violated the 14th Amendment in 1964 by voting to permit private-property owners to refuse to sell or rent to anyone they do not wish to do business with (TIME, Nov. 5). Last week the court fielded an equally hot issue by approving a reapportionment plan...