Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional position of the church has been to promulgate dogma, but we live in a day when dogma is a dirty word and to call a person dogmatic means he has a narrow, closed mind. Pike, thank God, has an open mind, a facile, exciting mind, and if he dares suggest we re-examine the meaning of some of those traditional words, he is trying to speak to the people of today, and we say "God bless him" for trying...
...Your treatment of the case of Dykes Simmons [Oct. 28] was a masterpiece of objectivity. Perhaps investigation will be stimulated by your story, and perhaps more people in the U.S. will ask the question that the people of Mexico so consistently ask: "What about the person who actually committed the insane murders...
...back room. One woman shouted, "There'll be 40 people here in a few minutes." Smith replied: "I'm sorry, but I didn't bring enough ammunition for them." He found to his dismay that the sandwich bags were too small to pull over a person's head, but he still had his knives and his pistol. So Smith ordered his victims to lie down in a circle like spokes in a wheel-their heads at the center, their feet on the perimeter...
...branches of the Government have picked up techniques like Cramer's. The Air Force, for instance, will employ his findings to delay speech in one ear for pilots and control tower operators who must communicate through noise interference. Cramer has discovered that a listener tends, as he hears another person speak to latch on to certain tonal qualities in the speaker's voice. As he listens, he will be able to hear and comprehend what the person is saying even through noise interference. With this in mind, instead of speeding speech to save time, Cramer has developed a process...
Admittedly the system has drawbacks. It is possible to take three or four books anywhere in the library, and keep them all day. They cannot be recalled, and while this is fine for the person writing a paper, it can tie up much needed books...