Word: suggestibility
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President Ford expects to be elected President, I suggest he put a muzzle on his wife...
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION depicts a world safely ruled by reason. a world where knowledge and order prevail over the alien and the unknowable. The most trivial-seeming remarks in this catalogue suggest the existence of a firm underlying logic. A note appended to a course in art history--"Enrollment: Limited to 390"--must be either unthinkably arbitrary, or the visible part of a much larger, perfectly rational order...
...them, marked Smith's growing interest in the canvas as membrane-a surface stretching topographically over a built-up support, giving a suave play of shadow in the folds. "I think of the curves from the canvas as somehow fleshy, body-like," he says. But they could also suggest landscape, as Riverfall (1969) showed: an undulating expanse, 22 ft. wide, sprayed and delicately washed with green, evoking the wet meadows and spring hedgerows of the English countryside...
Indeed, there is undisputed evidence that meditation lowers oxygen consumption and induces other physiological changes. But many researchers are uneasy about the claims made for TM in the book's plethora of graphs and charts; these suggest, among other things, that students do better in school after taking up TM, and that practitioners get along with their bosses and co-workers better than nonmeditators. Says Harvard Psychologist Gary Schwartz: "A lot of those charts are based on unpublished data which can be explained by many other reasons than those interpreted by the TM people...
...average family of four. Those figures are probably too steep: they reflect guesses on how much oil increases might pull up prices of natural gas and coal and a belief that the $2 tariff would be retained, which has already been proved wrong. They also suggest a fear that higher oil prices will drive up prices of petrochemicals and many other products. The possibility of such a "ripple effect" is real indeed, though the congressional study may have overestimated...