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Between $100,000 and $125,000 will be spent on the playground. According to Moulton, the amount was set to correspond to the $100,000 that the City recommended for improving Corporal Burns in its 1971-72 Capital Improvement Program...
This is sometimes true with sports. What a team has for a record does not always correspond to the kind of team...
...reconcile two aspects of my own behavior, represented by Burris and Frazier." Even today, both characters represent Skinner himself. Burris is a professor with traditional ideas, acquired in childhood, about freedom, dignity and democracy. Frazier is the antidemocratic creator of a controlled society whose views about human behavior correspond to Skinner's laboratory findings...
...useful to invoke the late Count Alfred Korzybski, inventor of general semantics. Korzybski was a Polish-born mathematician and physicist, part crank and part genius, who regarded his theory as a whole new science of life. Our language, argued Korzybski, does not reflect reality, and its structure does not correspond to the seen or unseen world. Its grammar, based on Aristotelian logic, implies primitive philosophical concepts tied to the prescientific past. All this leads to emotional disturbances and frustrations, known as semantic shock. Korzybski prescribed some mental tricks to guard against this disorder. Take, for instance, the old hit song...
...even though my father and Jimmy Stewart have long since aged in opposite directions while my mother's face took on the lines and wrinkles by which, as a child, I had learned to identify my grandmother and great-aunt-mostly because the stories they would tell seemed to correspond with those of the movies I had seen...