Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question-and-answer session with a professor of aerodynamics. In a laboratory a computer expert works on a pet project: developing an artificial nose that can smell. Around the campus, research teams study the sonar system of the bat in flight, assemble atoms into crystals capable of withstanding extraordinary stress, inquire into "the feasibility of controlling manipulative devices molded after human arms and hands by means of a general-purpose computer." And at their switchboards operators tirelessly greet the thousands of callers to UNiversity 4-6900 in Cambridge, Mass.: "This is M.I.T...
Part of the Kit. For decades, M.I.T. was famed as the leader in nuts-and-bolts engineering education. But today its emphasis has turned from teaching how to build bigger bridges or better mousetraps, and has come to stress basic science. "Educating a person for a current technology or a current art just doesn't make sense any more," says Professor Ascher Shapiro. Referring to his own field of mechanical engineering, he explains: "Now we are concentrating less on the technological art and more on engineering science: thermo dynamics, flow dynamics, electromagnetic theory-things which will be part...
Cattell and Sheier give the U.S. a lower anxiety rating than Britain. Explaining this apparent surprise, they suggest that what passes for anxiety in the U.S. is really the stress of effort in a land of ambition, competition and challenge. More convincingly, they note that anxiety is higher in situations where the individual feels unable to save himself. The anxiety of waiting for D-day is worse than the fear of walking through a field of land mines. This principle may help explain the attitude of many U.S. scientists and liberal intellectuals toward The Bomb. The possibility of civilization...
...than how brilliantly Wilde could write is how badly, and at times Mac Liammoir seems to use the bad less for thinking it expressive of Wilde than for thinking it good. There is small effort to recall the most dazzling talker of modern times, and far too much to stress Wilde's scarred and suffering side-in whom the play-actor yet persisted...
...second aim has received expression in the traditional humanistic effort to develop all the potentialities present in man. Every university, Tillich maintined, accepts this Renaissance ideal of education. Emphasis on induction into society is reduced and stress is placed rather on free questioning...