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...addition to his classic History and the companion Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology, Boring has written psychology texts, a research monograph on The Physical Dimensions of Consciousness, a war manual (Psychology for the Fighting Man), articles on planaria, dementia precox, sensations in the alimentary canal, mental measurement, and the role of great men in the progress of science. Particularly famous papers dealt with the return of sensation in the arm after nerves have been cut, an experiment he performed on himself, and the "moon illusion"--the difference of the apparent size of the moon when...
Freud. Director John Huston has turned out an intense, intelligent cine-monograph on the early struggles of the papa of psychiatry, portrayed without much psychological insight by Montgomery Clift...
...reader observes Wilde's polite overtures to literary elders ("I take the liberty of sending you a short monograph. . . . It is little more than a stray sheet from a boy's diary"), watches with tolerance as the young wit, in an endless series of newspaper debates, carefully builds his reputation for outrageousness, and follows the unpredictable triumph of his American lecture tour, as the 27-year-old aesthete, dressed in velvet doublet and knee breeches, lectures enthusiastic Leadville miners on Italian art (Pearson's biography helps explain the Leadville success: it seems that Wilde wowed the miners...
...huge crowd turned up at Christ Church to hear its organist, Marion Boron, try to play Bach's Art of Fugue, or most of it. This performance was intended to illustrate her 1959 "discovery" of the symbolic intent behind this work, which she has described in a recently published monograph...
...Gushing Monograph. It was three years ago that Dealer Verkauf, upon finishing a collage, brushed in the name of Verlon and thereby turned a pleasant hobby into a thriving little business. Soon Verlon collages began turning up at Vienna shows, and among a small group of collectors, he became known as a hot discovery. Dr. Werner Hofmann, director-designate of Vienna's projected Museum of the Twentieth Century, not only snapped up a Verlon for his new collection, but also wrote an enthusiastic article about the new painter in Zurich's English-language Art International. The good doctor...