Word: eights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus far medical students have been reasonably civil in their confrontations with school authorities. But their demand for "relevance" is every bit as insistent as it is among undergraduates. "We spend eight weeks learning rat behavior and eight hours on child behavior," said a student at the University " of California's new San Diego School of Medicine. "There's an extreme imbalance there...
...hard murder to forget. Thirty-eight people passively watched as a man stalked, stabbed and killed Kitty Genovese, 28, in the predawn darkness of the Kew Gardens section of New York City five years ago. All heard her screams; none came to her aid. Since then, the paralysis of the innocent by stander has spurred psychologists to in vestigate man's unfortunate proclivity for playing the Bad Samaritan...
...then gave each group a new but similar chore, allowing them to take as much time as they wanted. The five-minute students managed to finish the job in accordance with their original deadline; the others, having initially decided that the job required more time, took an average of eight minutes to complete the assignment...
Kamiya then sets the monitor to sound when the subject's brain waves are in the alpha range of eight to twelve cycles per second. In one test, eight of ten subjects were able to control the tone, emitting or suppressing brain waves as requested. They Were unable to say exactly how they gained such control; they simply wanted to keep receiving the proper feedback from the tone...
Died. Wilhelm Backhaus, 85, German patriarch of concert pianists and the century's foremost interpreter of Beethoven; of a heart attack; in Villach, Austria. When Backhaus was eight, the noted pianist-composer Arthur Nikisch wrote to him that "whoever plays the great Bach so well when so young will surely make his way later on." The assessment was overly modest. In a career spanning three generations, Backhaus won acclaim for his masterful interpretations of virtually all the great composers. But his deepest dedication was to Beethoven, whose sonatas he played with great clarity of style and breadth of emotion...