Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Handy Grading. To the cept-savvy student, cepts leap right out of the pages. In a politics course, he would readily note as a cept, "Revolutions are caused by rising expectations"; in philosophy, "To be is to perceive to be perceived"; in economics, "Calvinism caused capitalism"; in religion, "Capitalism caused Calvinism...
...bandages after three operations for a detached retina of the eye, the glacial attitude of the royal family at last was softening. Queen Elizabeth graciously let it be known that she would visit her uncle as soon as his condition would permit. And she would not only take note that the duchess existed, but would extend her the royal hand in friendship...
...issue contains two scholarly tracts, two reviews, many poems, and three undefinable articles. These last are particularly interesting. In passing, however, let me note that some of the poetry is very good, especially the translations by Robert Adler from the Hebrew works of Abraham Shlonsky. I can't speak for their accuracy; but Mr. Adler has constructed poetic lines of terse and powerful English...
...throw bricks at property or people. Do not cause damage," lectured Indonesia's President Sukarno to a group of university students. It seemed a strange note to strike, in view of the fact that four times in the past three months Sukarno had permitted Indonesian mobs to storm USIS offices in Djakarta, Surabaya and Medan, smashing windows, ripping down American flags, burning thousands of books...
Asbell pities culturally deprived children who are "growing up unequipped to live in an urban, primarily middle-class, world of papers and pens, books and conversations, machines and desks and time clocks." He fails to note that culturally advantaged children born into that idyllic world frequently find it unsatisfactory, or downright repulsive. And he does not reflect on what a fully automated, fully rationalized world will be like. Of course it is necessary to feed and house people before attending to the neuroses of the well-fed and well-housed. But the wide psychological impact of automation cannot be isolated...