Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover was a great shock and disappointment to me. It seems a pity that such a great person as the Pope should be pictured as a cracked piece of clay...
...whores, rats and babies. "I ain't got no paint and I ain't got no windows and I ain't got no providements. I keep the place clean just so the doctor can come in, and some day the undertaker. What's a poor person? A poor person is when...
...What should it be?"); space conceptualization ("Which of the five following designs is not like the other four?"); reasoning ("If Bill is taller than Bob and Bob is taller than Ed, then Bill is what to Ed?"). Some test experts rate students separately on these abilities. "A person is not smart or stupid in general," explains Harvard Psychologist Gerald S. Lesser. "He can be smart and stupid at the same time. Each of us is better at certain things than at others...
...mediocre student himself at Muhlenberg, Skinner was convinced that many local youngsters would do all right if a school would just give them a chance. Impulsively he dashed off a letter to a man he had never met but had always considered "a hero of mine and a unique person in history" - Dwight Eisenhower. Skinner asked Ike's help in starting a college...
DeWan called the Operation Match questionnaire "less sophisticated, appealing to the big, Mid-west universities." He said that under Contact's "two-way matches" which he described as an improvement over Operation Match, a student would be the "ideal" date of the person whose name he received and that that person would also be the student's ideal date...