Word: layman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though economics stands mid-way between two cultures, it is its similarity to the natural sciences that causes the greatest problems. Professional economics shares with the sciences an analytic technique "remote from the common experience of the layman and a language that is principally mathematical," to use the words the Bruner Committee applied to the natural sciences. And to judge from the current trend this will become increasingly...
...SCIENCE REPORTER. A five-minute summary of news in science, presented for the layman...
Hypnosis is a much misunderstood phenomenon. The layman tends to conceive of it in the most mystical terms, and there are many amateur Svengalis who, actually, know very little about what they are doing but are entranced with the notion that someone else is in their "power." In the wake of such books as DuMaurier's Trilby and Mann's Mario the Magician the idea that hypnotism is something supernatural had come to be a generally accepted fact...
...Baptist layman, I would humbly like to take issue with the Rev. Bliss Wiant. He opposes the singing of gospel hymns in churches [Aug. 31]. These old hymns have been a source of hope and consolation to millions of people throughout the world; they promise help to those who are faithful, honest, and prayerful...
...summer Arts Festival, the Grand Prize went to a sculptor, Gilbert Franklin, for his safely modern Beach Figure, clean-lined and anonymous as a newel post. But the public has yet to acquire the jurist's inhibitions. Critics see form first in a work of art; the average layman sees content. At Boston's Festival, viewers voted overwhelmingly for Gardner Cox's Robert Frost. Cox's portrait might be a bit fuzzy, but the subject had nobility, and that proved enough...