Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...produced, like the voice of a cricket, by the violent stridulation of the legs? Words occasionally can be made out, like raisins in cornmeal mush. "Goan . . . git . . . luhhv . . ." And then all at once everything stops, and a big, trembly tender half smile, half sneer smears slowly across the CinemaScope screen. The message that millions of U.S. teen-age girls love to receive has just been delivered...
...back over two and half months of his televised "Psychology One" course, Edwin G. Boring, professor of Psychology, felt that the chief value of TV lies in its ability to give close-up views of small objects. "We even showed a pupillary reflex last week," Boring said. "Half the screen was filled up with an eye, and you could see the pupil expanding and contracting under the influence of light...
...have swathed the picture in clouds of religious ballyhoo by such stunts as the incredible full-page ad in the New York Times citing the laudatory comments of a number of religious leaders, he reneges and will not have it so. In a sugary little speech flashed on the screen before the picture opens, the producer-director declares that his moral is the birth of freedom; "Moses freed mankind for the first time to live under law, not by submission to some individual." The statement is not only inaccurate; in effect, it throws a sop to everybody-atheists and agnostics...
...human Moses of the Bible who, about to die, exhorts his people with the words, "Your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their high places," gives us only a lily-livered little liberal who orates vaguely about freedom; instead of God, only an off-screen voice; instead of religious fervor, only sentimentality...
...part of the educative process. It probably does not make too much difference if a lecture is televised, for there is no verbal interaction between instructor and student, and students in the back rows are apt to get less of the lectures personality than they would over a TV screen anyway...