Word: distortive
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...amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that "Funtown" is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white" and "colored," when your first name becomes "nigger" and your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are) and your last name becomes "John...
Opium Smokers. While certification rules distort college curriculums, the ultimate irony is that half-educated teachers are later thrown into fields not their own. This is how most states "solve" the teacher shortage. Conant "contemplates with horror" the fact that 34% of all seventh-and eighth-grade mathematics classes are taught by teachers whose college training covered less than two elementary courses in the subject. Concludes Conant: "The policy of certification based on the completion of state-specified course requirements is bankrupt...
...themselves, but the examination system rewards them for figuring what he wants--"teaching is odds with the examination system defeats itself." And by providing an artificial group of rewards and unrelated to the pleasure and pain the student gets from the of material he is studying, examination and grades distort his judgment of what he likes--a very crucial in Riesman's eyes...
...Violence. But the subject of his paintings is really life in a world in which beauty and violence are synonymous. He often places his figures in boxlike cages, but this is only to "isolate these figures so you can see them more clearly." The whole purpose is "to distort into reality. I distort to bring the reality of the object violently forward...
...criticized, is a sub-megaton shot to be exploded at about 500 miles altitude. It will be high enough to have a direct effect on the lower levels of the Van Allen belt. AEC scientists think it will create a "magnetic bubble" hundreds of miles in diameter that will distort the lines of force of the earth's magnetic field. The bubble will probably disappear after 30 to 40 minutes, but while it lasts, it will be an obstacle to the free movement of particles in the radiation belt. Some of them will detour around it and continue...