Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your article "Programed Learning" is most unjust in its blanket criticism of textbooks. How did your education editor and Psychologist Skinner get so smart using the allegedly dull, inflexible, incomprehensible textbooks? And without the benefit of a programed learning machine...
...with the trusts and other professional investors who operate with more knowledge and less emotion. If the odd-lotter is selling, reasons Drew, somebody must be buying. The buyers are the professionals. Drew's conclusion: selling by the odd-lotters, since it simultaneously reflects a heavy flow of "smart money" into the market, signals a market advance...
Pigeons Playing Pingpong. The new boom in programed learning goes back to 1954 and takes as its father Harvard's eminent Behavioral Psychologist Burrhus Frederic Skinner. By "conditioning" experiments. Skinner had produced such laboratory oddities as pigeons playing pingpong. Pigeons are hardly bright, but Skinner made them smart by one-step-at-a-time teaching, immediately "reinforcing" each correct response with a grain of corn. Soon the pigeons blithely pecked a ball back and forth across a small table...
...matters of principle, there was plenty of confusion. Senate Minority Leader Ev Dirksen noted that the Kennedy Administration had failed to propose a civil rights bill, promised to "unfurl" one of his own. Morton agreed that it would be a smart move, but House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck and Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater demurred. Said Goldwater, who has a greater following in the South than any other Republican: "We have literally bent over backwards to attract the Negro vote, but they don't vote for us." Lamented one G.O.P. leader: "We've got to find...
...feel like Dr. Frankenstein. I taught her everything she knows, and she's damn smart." Thus did chain-smoking Houston Post Gossip Columnist Bill Roberts, 43, express his frustration about a journalistic "creation" that has come home to haunt him: blonde Maxine Mesinger, 35, tattler for the Houston Press. Once Roberts' girl Friday on the Press, Maxine last week was still scooping her way through town as his chief rival, barely noting a snippy feud that has Houstonians gabbing as much about the two columnists as about the people they chronicle...