Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...introverts had difficulty connecting their letters; the timid tended to squeeze all theirs together. Gradually, Trillat concocted a set of corrective exercises designed to give children a sense of "continuity, creation and equilibrium." In overcoming a defect in any one of these elements, said he, a child must first develop a feeling for rhythm, melody and harmony...
...with a single gesture. They would pull it in a series of hesitant, jerky movements." Such cases he starts out with a series of connected , then has them to variations ". For the particularly nervous he designed special "sedative exercises" ^TW^, and for the unstable, a series of plaits to develop "continuity in a discontinued movement." Those who squeeze their letters practice broad, sweeping motions , and those who spread their letters too much through lack of a sense of harmony must develop a consciousness of space and balance by each child is encouraged to find his own creative personality by forming...
...administration than during the regular college year. There is a good reason for this, according to Assistant Director Robert C. Wood, who is also an assistant professor of Government. As he puts it, "With the student body here for only eight weeks, we can't expect activities to develop by themselves...
...opening the door a crack to modern art (at least up to 1917) and admitting that "both still lifes and landscapes have every right to develop in Soviet art," Gerasimov also left the door ajar for himself. Privately Gerasimov has been turning out a crop of voluptuous nudes with no social import whatsoever...
...teaching machine designed to take over the performance of certain classroom duties has been built by B. Frederick Skinner, professor of Psychology. He has just received a grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education to develop the "robot" for teaching elementary languages and science at the college level...