Word: skinner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrasts, and even created, amazingly, a genuine air of tragedy. While totally different in approach, this interpretation equalled in impact the famous Toscanini broadcast recording. The final movement seemed somewhat less successful, probably due less to Munch's varied tempo than to the limitations of the hall's Skinner organ, which lacks clarity and brilliance...
Knowledge in Bits. All of this is organized according to the learning theories of Harvard Behavioral Psychologist Burrhus Frederic Skinner (TIME, March 24, 1961). Skinner taught pigeons to play pingpong by breaking the action into tiny steps, immediately rewarding each correct step with a grain of corn. This led to the idea of giving children knowledge in atomized "bits," and testing each bit immediately by an easy leading question. When the student responds with the right answer, he gets a glow of pleasure-his grain of corn. The technique requires some mechanical device (often a teaching machine) to hide...
...SKINNER, M.D. The Lakewood Clinic Tacoma, Wash...
...Renard" is a burlesque performed by a cock, a fox, a goat, and a cat. The fox, of course, is trying to catch the cock, and the goat and the cat intervene to keep him from doing so. David Moran portrayed the cock, relying entirely on his dancing. Wesley Skinner looked like a goat, although his movements were not as successful as Moran's. Paul Magloff--the crafty, drooling "Renard"--used both his elastic body and plastic face to achieve the work's most impressive performance. The four solo vocalists sang expressivley and tunefully, though Thomas Weber and Gregory Sandow...
...another $73,000, contributed $27,000 of their own. They took that news to Johns Hopkins University President Milton Eisenhower. He told them: "I'm calling my brother tonight and telling him to give you the green light." By this time, Ike was ready to encourage the project. Skinner and Rosenkrans got the Presbyterian Synod of New York to approve a loose affiliation with the school, largely for the sake of fund raising. A 265-acre alfalfa field along Lake Cayuga was selected as the site, architects were hired to plan two classroom buildings and three dormitories. Tuition...