Word: fed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested in stimulating radio criticism. "Today we have as a matter of course criticism of music, literature, drama; why should we not have radio criticism?" he asks. "People should be asking how radio is serving them; what issues are being treated, and how; whether the ideas they are being fed are those of vested interests; and whether the quality of their entertainment cannot be vastly improved...
Chemists Russell J. Fosbinder and Lewis Aldro Walter of Maltbie Chemical Co. at Newark, N. J. last year created a new sulfanilamide product: sulfamethylthiazol. Biologists of Winthrop Chemical Co.'s Albany Laboratories fed the drug to mice infected with Staphylococcus germs, found it far more powerful, far less toxic than sulfapyridine. But even after hundreds of trials, no one dared experiment on human beings...
Novel and refreshing, judging by standards now in vogue, are the theories of teaching outlined by the poet Robert Frost in a recent interview with the press. Mr. Frost, who is conducting a weekly class at Harvard this year, holds no brief for stereotyped spoon-fed education. He states frankly that for him education is a take-it- or-leave-it affair in which he will "just keep silent, or even lie down on the desk until it is realized that what I want is self-starters, not followers of a set routine...
...Frost and those of his kind with trying to sensationalize education, so passive has the intellectual role of college students become that it takes considerable effort to jar them out of the well-marked grooves in which they slide along and to force them to do independent thinking . . . Fed several times daily on a diet of formal lectures, prodded by quizzes and factual check-up tests to take every forward step, many undergraduates lose all power of self-starting merely through lack of either the opportunity or the incentive to develop that power...
...make-up, and let the cameras grind. In the really good French films, they create an aesthetic standard all their own. This standard, grim and gory, vaguely reminiscent of some wind-swept parts of Wagner, is like a bucketful of cold water when it hits an American audience bottle-fed on the soothing cream of Hollywood...