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...next time you go to the University Health Services (UHS), you may be asked to fill out a "feedback questionnaire" before you leave...
...other highlight of the visit was a tape the group had played during the intermission. It featured piercing guitar feedback and cavernous waves of applause. For twenty minutes. Barren of thought, grating, annoying--and after a while maddening. Nietzsche once wrote. "The voice of disappointment: I listened for an echo; but heard nothing but praise...
Inflated Blues. Picasso's immature work has benefited greatly from hindsight and feedback. The slides flick, the familiar images succeed one another-the young painter chewing his way through Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, Gauguin, Munch, Steinlen and a host of other influences that crowded upon him in Barcelona and, after 1900, in Paris. There is no consolidated style in Picasso's career until, aged 21, he starts moving into the Blue and Pink periods...
...brings out the best, and the worst, in Steiner is the most prestigious specialist in linguistics today, Noam Chomsky. Steiner, with romance in his heart and the ultimate language of poetry on his lips, approaches linguistics on his knees. Chomsky, full of crisp talk about "data handling" and "feedback," confronts language in a white smock-the scientist of semantics. "Is there, in fact, a 'linguistic science'?" Steiner asks, arguing that the new scientific dogmatism about speech ignores the "mystery" of language...
Alpha may also prove useful in other ingenious ways. Psychologist Thomas Mulholland, president of the Bio-Feedback Research Society, thinks it may be feasible to develop teaching machines controlled by attention. When concentration is high, alpha is low: notified by proliferating alpha that a child's mind is wandering, the mechanical teacher could win his student back by showing a few attention-getting pictures...