Word: sort
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...himself is a lapsed biologist who never outgrew his fascination with the orderly growth of organisms. Born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, he was a child prodigy who published important papers on mollusks before he was out of high school, later became "haunted by the idea of discovering a sort of embryology of intelligence." In 1920 he went to work in the Paris laboratory of Psychologist Théodore Simon, a co-developer with Alfred Binet of the first successful IQ test. Poring over the "wrong" answers that children regularly gave on the tests, Piaget was surprised to see that...
...face only partially coarsened by a Sundance Kid mustache, he is reminiscent of the more or less traditional Hollywood matinee idol. The resemblance ends right there. He rejects the Hollywood scene, and his conversation is a pressagent's nightmare. "Let's face it," he confides with the sort of intensity that adds volumes to every sentence. "If you want to get anything done in Hollywood, you've got to fight. It's just one big battle out there, and I don't need that." If Redford can virtually write his own ticket...
...mantelpiece objects., medicine bottles, and birds behind glass or a wire, closing them into a three dimensional space, like a tomb. These boxes seem to be the only attempt to frame three dimensional space in the context of the flat vision of the new American painting, but even this sort of ? D picture is lifeless compared to the original space of the abstract works...
William E. Schroeder '60, lecturer on Education and one of the builders of the yurt, plans to begin holding office hours in the yurt after Christmas, and to teach a seminar there next term. "It's sort of our feeling that a proper space for informal meetings doesn't exist in the University," he said...
...coffee machines ran all day, and in the afternoons two of them were converted to a strange sort of tomato bullion which, however, didn't give you the jumpy feeling that you go after eight cups of coffee. Drinking these wonderful hot liquids was the only way to stay alive...