Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The American youth is intelligent . . . he has lived the life of a free man. . . . His family environment and schooling have trained him to expect in his leaders practical knowledge, aggressively applied -an appeal to reason rather than to fear or emotion. ... A domineering or paternalistic type of leadership will fail...
Dionne Quintuplets. "If a highly favorable environment could do what some psychologists claim," says Dr. Newman, "these five children should be far ahead of most children of their age in mental development [but] the quints are all somewhat retarded mentally ... a disappointing mediocrity, to say the least."
> Husband and wife frequently have the same life span. To explain this fact, Dr. Ciocco was driven to "vague but understandable terms." Marriage, said he, brings "pairing ... of individuals having a similar degree of vitality or resistance to fatal pathological processes." And they both live in the same environment.
I ran across a remark the other day in the "Pro Musica" column of the Radcliffe News which seemed to me typical of a fairly widespread misconception about Mozart. The writer of "Pro Musica" discussed at some length the E-flat Symphony, and then went on to say: ". . . where a...
If with this rather obvious point in mind we examine the excerpt quoted above from the "Pro Musica," we are forced to the conclusion that Mozart's music is thoroughly superficial, that it resembles notlring so much as cheap confectionery. If, while he was really "unhappy," Mozart should have continued...