Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject sits with his eyes closed and thinks, for instance, about a familiar face. An alpha wave sweeps across his brain. In some mysterious way, not yet understood, the wave is able to select the right impulses stored in the memory circuits. Many impulses, representing color, shape, light and shade, blend together into a picture of the remembered person's face...
...week starting Friday, Sept. 24. Times are E.D.T., through Sept. 25, E.S.T. thereafter, subject to change...
...said darkly, "are strange indeed, including the fact that Porter jumped-or was pushed-through a window screen. This is not an ordinary act of suicide." Pearson said Porter had told him that certain people had been trying to force him to return to Scotland (he was a British subject), because "apparently some people believed he knew too much." Porter had told some friends of attempts to blackmail him, and he was sure he was being shadowed. Other friends of Porter said he had booked passage on the liner Media, but had canceled it on sailing day, Aug. 6. They...
While I'm on the subject of Radcliffe, here's a note for the Radcliffe freshmen. Sixty percent of you will be taken out by Harvard men and like it. Thirty percent will be taken out by Harvard men and won't like it. That leaves ten percent, and nothing can be done about...
...rearticulate" the need for Socialism. He spent the last six months of 1947 lecturing on U.S. literature in Salzburg and Prague and writing a book "about some of the things it means to be an American today." But From the Heart of Europe never gets close to that subject. It is one of those embarrassingly naive excursions into politics and world affairs that show the academic critic (Matthiessen is the nation's most assiduous Henry James scholar) with his judgment cap off and his hair shirt...