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...breaking the action into tiny steps, immediately rewarding each correct step with a grain of corn. This led to the idea of giving children knowledge in atomized "bits," and testing each bit immediately by an easy leading question. When the student responds with the right answer, he gets a glow of pleasure-his grain of corn. The technique requires some mechanical device (often a teaching machine) to hide the printed answer until the student is ready to compare it with his own. Sullivan's solution is to print answers on the left side of each page, which children...
...mile-long driveway through fields full of pheasants leads to the 365-room Tudor mansion of Lancaster stone in the Lincolnshire countryside, 100 miles from London. Inside Harlaxton Manor, the glow of a 15-foot crystal chandelier reflects from marble floors in a 134-year-old room, once a Jesuit chapel. And on the great staircase, a leggy young blonde from Stanford University remarks: "Gee, nobody but nobody gets to live in a place like this...
...chair draped with a leopard coat marked by the gallery PLEASE DON'T SIT. And right there behind the gallerygoer is a plaster facsimile of a real person looking like a petrified floorwalker. Coke bottles protrude from the canvas; TV sets roar from the painted surface; neon lights glow like theater marquees. A plethora of real objects has been swept into art, and art has walked right out of the frame into the living room...
...another scene, the characters hold a Roman orgy in a little black shack, during which the men pry up the skirts of their women but never actually make love. Bright red paint coats the walls, much discussion of aphrodisiacs takes place, and a fire casts its glow over the would-be lovers. This savage yet inhibited emotion represents the flip side of the new scientific rationality...
...bubble will be filled with natural light by day and will glow from internal light by night. The architects regard the structure as a prototype for whole communities living in a "Garden of Eden" environment protected from unfavorable climates...