Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...object of the experiment is to see whether a person's "belief" affects his extra-sensory ability. In tests conducted at the Harvard Psychological Clinic several years ago, the sheep, or believers, have shown telepathic ability repeatedly in scientific tests, so that the experimenters considered the results significant proof that this power exists. The goats, on the other hand, have shown consistently telepathic aptitude...
...pastors' lawyers also plugged their clients' cultural guilt as proof that they had been led astray. Intoned one: "The defendants were not only obedient tools, they were ideologically convinced tools. The defendants are victims of a foreign influence." Another made it even plainer where his sympathies really lay. "My client," he said, "is a weak-willed person [who] sold out to the Anglo-Americans. I ask for one year in prison for my client. If he does not like the way I am defending him, he ought to be frank...
...Buenos Aires' Retiro Park for a mammoth show marking the first anniversary of the purchase of the national railways from their British owners. It was a full-blown Peronista rally, and the speeches had all the flavor of the old oligarch-baiting times. Without bothering to offer proof, Perón's Transport Minister proclaimed that the railways (reported last month to be losing money at the rate of $100 million a year) were now in the black. The boss of the railway unions rose to shout: "If at any time it becomes necessary, the workers will rise...
...filtración. Under this time-honored racket, unscrupulous conductors on the company's rickety, orange-painted guaguas (pronounced wah-wahs) have filtered up to 40% of each day's fares into their own pockets. Last year, in a desperate effort to replace the conductors with temptation-proof turnstiles, the company offered to retire all surplus conductors at full pay. Their union-the Sindicato de Empleados de Omnibus Aliados-refused...
Shaw's "Pygmalion," in its motion picture attire, ranks with "Hamlet" and "Henry V" as convincing proof that great plays can be made into great movies without sacrificing anything to film technique. By itself "Pygmalion" is an excellent picture, yet at the same time an accurate and faithful reproduction of the play as Shaw wrote it. True, many scenes implied in the play are acted out in the movie, but no one can seriously criticize such amplification when it is done with the care and respect so characteristic of British films...