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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...results of the examination are revealed to a student in the form of a graph on which his curve is plotted against that of the general average. The results in previous years have shown that a graduate's curve would reach its highest point on that part of the test covering his special field of concentration...
...mind which can clear itself by thought and the mind which remains bewildered and can proceed only by burying the difficulty in a formula-retained, at best, by mere rote memory-is in this power to recognize the new problem as, in part, an old conquest." Intelligence in its highest form, he adds, is ability to ferret out the changed meaning of old words in new settings. E.g.: The water is boiling in the kettle. The kettle is boiling. ("Kettle" changes its meaning in the second sentence.) Mr. Richards' first lesson is on rhetoric, his first example a critic...
...extraordinarily popular series of concerts given every autumn at London's ugly old Queen's Hall. Unlike Covent Garden concerts, the Promenade series are not fashionable. Main reasons for the concerts' popularity are their cheapness, varied programs, unconventional atmosphere, the personality of their conductor. Highest admission charge is about $1.75, cheapest 50?. The 50?-tickets admit bearers to a large space devoid of any seats. There, an odd assortment of Londoners amble around the floor, smoke, swap opinions and amateur musical criticism, behave in general more like swing fans at a jam jag than ordinary concertgoers...
This maudlin hocuspocus, together with far too much stunting and propagandizing, slows down the tempo of the show to a very ordinary invalid's walk. If the fabulous invalid survives, it will be thanks more to its own constitution than to the ministrations of Broadway's highest-paid, by-appointment-only play doctors...
...factors in marriage (but less important than personality and background factors) are the relative strength of a husband's and wife's sex drive and ability of a wife to experience sexual satisfaction. But many marriages in which other psychological adjustments are satisfactory rank in the highest category of happiness despite the wife's failure in the latter respect. One wife in three rarely or never reaches such enjoyment. Only one in five always does so. This failure causes the husband unhappiness almost as often as the wife. If this failure is not overcome in the first...