Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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René Clair, most famous of the French moviemakers, foresaw another consequence of the wide-screen revolution. Quick, frequent shifts from one image to another would be impossible in CinemaScope. The eye cannot take in so large an image in one glance, and the mind is irritated by too rapid...
Dr. M. Murray Peshkin of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital took up the case against misdirected mother love. After many years of successfully treating asthmatic children by removing physical allergens, e.g., dust and pollens, from their environment, Dr. Peshkin found that he still had 10% who did not get...
When this principle is violated, certain leaders begin "to conduct themselves like autocrats . . . as if they alone knew everything, as if only they can say anything relevant and forceful, and as if it is the task of others only to support their opinion. In such an environment, there is created...
Lindsley, who is a student in the Department of Experimental Psychology, carried on his experiments at the Atomic Energy Commission laboratories, directed by Dr. W. W. Jetter of the Boston University Medical School. His basic tool in these experiments was a device known as the "Skinner Box." This is a...
This would threaten man's supremacy over the machine but not his artistic talents. "One of these machines," Shannon stated, "will collect parts from its environment and assemble them to produce a second machine of the same type, which then starts collecting parts to construct a third machine and so...