Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Science last week Psychologist Frank A. Beach Jr. of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History announced a neat solution of this minor but often troublesome problem. The solution: tattooing. Instead of using a code, ordinary numbers are electronically tattooed in the rats' ears. In this way, Dr. Beach declared, "young rats can be marked for life at the time of weaning...
...focus. They seem to have to compensate for physical restriction by overemoting. Twenty hours of rehearsal are required for an hour of telecasting (an average of four hours for an hour in broadcasting). The dramatic material should be artistically equivalent at least to a Grade B movie, and the problem of scaring up enough of it to run even one television station all year round is fairly staggering. The live drama now being put out by NBC is about on a par with an early Biograph Film, minus Mary Pickford...
...committee reported that all signs indicate that people's emotions can be trained. The big problem is : in what direction? The committee could not tell what emotional maturity is. Emotional behavior that eliminates tensions in the individual may not please society. "Yet society is not consistent within itself. . . . Socially, it is regarded as a mark of maturity in the United States to hate communism, while in much of Russia the affectively mature hate capitalism." Emotionally mature behavior, concluded Dr. Prescott, must be a compromise between physiological, social and ethical demands...
...they are to take their place as leaders of the community of tomorrow, must be as able to size up the propaganda of newspapers, the propaganda put out by governments, and that put out by every sort of biased salesman. Governments will probably be more of a problem in the future, for the power of private publishers, wealthy though some of them are, is as nothing compared to the blasting force of the government, especially when the seats of power are held by men like Minton and Hague and Black, men whose ideas of government point to a Nazi form...
...problems which he isolates and presents are problems which must sooner or later be faced--the sooner the better. There is the problem of diet, of the minimum amount of food necessary to keep a family alive: too many go without this amount. There is the housing problem, and three is the inevitable problem of relief. Using anecdote, case histories, statistics, Mr. Hicks puts forward the case for the under-privileged with vivid realism. It is a superficial survey, but presented with irony and understatement it is a powerful stimulant to thought...