Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea of academic inadequacy, he continued, has disappeared. "It is no longer agreed that when faculty venture out in the real world, someone should be along to wipe their noses," he said...
...idea to the Wood Method, which is foreign to all conventional reading philosophy and which seems to violate the bounds of common sense more than the other theories, is that comprehension increases as the reading rate reaches exceptionally high levels. It is true that most traditionalists agree a person will understand better at 350 words per minute than at a rate of 200. But they contend that at more accelerated speeds the comprehension will drop sharply. What is unique about Evelyn Wood's concept is that she has taken the idea of speed - increasing - comprehension and extended it far beyond...
...Wood, who herself can read almost anything at 12,000 words per minute, describes it: "The reader becomes a part of the story....The more accurately and carefully chosen the author's words, the sharper the pictures we see and experience....Since the Wood method relies upon the total idea or thought for meaning rather than the individual words, there is no feeling of hurry or fast motion or speeded reading... as the eyes go down the page. The words go in fast, but they go in only to make the complete picture...
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Walzer said that the most immediate problem is to compel the United States government to take unilateral action in ending the war. He dismissed the idea that American society would have to undergo "radical transformation...