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Mathematicians have long been haunted by a paradox: although most U.S. citizens profess to dread the study of mathematics, they are suckers for mathematical puzzles, made a best-seller of Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million. The mathematicians' conclusion: the trouble is not with mathematics but with the way it is taught. Most math teachers emphasize computation to the point of drudgery. A prime example (from an old U.S. arithmetic textbook - Greenleaf 's) : "Required the contents of the earth, supposing its circumference to be 25,000 miles. Ans. 263,858,149,120.06886875 cubic miles...
...Bicknell Neal of New York City's Health Department. Encephalitis swept the U.S. in the wake of the influenza epidemic of 1918. What World War II has in store no one can tell, but Dr. Neal and other experts* fill this book with everything they know about this dread malady (Encephalitis ; Grune & Stratton...
Today, after 20 years under Miss Thomas' easier-going successor, Marion Edwards Park, Bryn Mawr has College Entrance Boards instead of special exams, written tests in languages (Spanish and Italian are now permitted) instead of the dread "orals." But Bryn Mawr is still an intellectual institution; Dr. Park, like Dr. Thomas, believed that "The country needs good minds...
...dread term Munich men returned to British tongues again. Many critics attributed the Government's failure to open a second front to high officialdom. The critics suspected anxiety to restore the old order and a fear of Russian victory...
Such a complex, of course, does not explain the act of murder. Many men, says Dr. Wertham, have matricidal impulses, never translate them into action. Instead they bury the desire in their subconscious, develop compulsion neuroses-a morbid dread of knives, persistent symbolic hand-washing, etc. If he had had a tendency toward ordinary forms of insanity, Gino might have killed himself instead of his mother. Or he might have withdrawn to the world of fantasy, developed schizophrenia...