Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Bordley. Sadly, rubella makes that difficult. The disease can also cause mental retardation and slight brain damage. In a child's first year or two, the symptoms of both ailments are similar to those of deafness: the child fails to associate sounds with their sources and respond directly to external stimuli. He will also not learn to talk on schedule. But simple tests by doctors can usually discover whether the cause of such symptoms is deafness, and there is now a new tool for more difficult diagnoses, a computerized electroencephalogram. Electrodes are taped to the infant...
...this does not make his themes any the less contemporary. His subjects are haunted faces captured in the city's maze of subways, lunch counters, hospitals - and sometimes square, symbolic boxes that fade away into a phantasmagoric perspective under the baleful glare of fluorescent lights. "I respond to the urban environment," says Tooker, a native of Brooklyn who received his education at Andover ('38) and Harvard ('42), and now lives part of the time in Hanover, N.H. "Painting nature can be a kind of running away and an escape," he explains. "I feel I am urban...
...tether during a space walk, the astronaut suddenly seems to be in trouble. His command pilot orders him back aboard the spacecraft, but he does not respond. Something has happened to him, and obviously he must be recovered...
...students themselves respond to the environment in which they find themselves? How do they perceive their own interests and the prospects for their fulfillment? To what extent have the communist regimes in Eastern Europe been successful in instilling their own values in the students...
...exaggerated fashion. It magnifies and to some extent distorts the current characteristics of its society. It may, also, at times be more sensitive to new developments, and thus the new developments may first be seen dramatically through the actions of youth. This power to magnify and this power to respond quickly makes the study of youth an especially rewarding one, for through youth some aspects of the nature of a society can be understood more fully and more quickly; but one must be wary of the distortions also. To lose contact with the mind of youth, however, is to lose...