Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frank and Levinson have devised an instrument that a school nurse can use to detect the ear disturbance. Thus, they suggest, primary dyslexia can now be diagnosed in preschool children. The two doctors are also searching for a physiological treatment for the disorder; in a small pilot program, they have begun to study the effect of cyclizine, a motion-sickness drug, on the reading ability of dyslexic children...
From the outset, the author asserts that "there is a South--a region that is different from the rest of the nation." He proposes "not to suggest that there were narrow escapes or near misses, that things might have been different, [but] to illustrate concretely something that is often forgotten in thinking about the American South ... Always there have been diversities and divergences within its history and among its people, not only between the races, but among the whites as well...
...transcribers afraid merely to suggest a joke, leaving the details to the imagination of their readers. Take the great pizza caper, for example...
...producing intelligent work and responsible enough to organize an exhibition, we hoped to indirectly encourage the University to participate to a greater extent in such exhibitions. And, quite apart from the quality of the individual works, the exhibition was interesting. It was well installed, with sufficent diversity to suggest that the visual arts, despite a lack of University sanction, continue to be of significance to a broad spectrum of people in the undergraduate community...
Catch-23. The organic process of writing fascinates Stoppard: "I half commit myself to some distant future date. I often talk to someone about it and suggest that in six months it will be done, so I set up a kind of deadline. But most of the intervening period disappears in a kind of anxious state of walking about. You cannot start until you know what you want to do, and you do not know what you want to do until you start. That is catch-23. Panic breaks that circle. Finally a certain force in the accumulated material begins...