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...holes. After the lady decided which group he belonged in, things began to seem better. On the second day, a Mickey Mouse cartoon telling how to pronounce the alphabet, a play session with model airplanes, and a telecast of Mother Goose songs ushered Peter into the wonderful audio-visual-tactual routine that was to keep him fascinated during all eight years of studying the "Common Learnings." At first he disliked being one of the group who got their long vacation in winter (his only free stretch in summer came when the National Teachers'. Alliance local struck for vacations with...
Most scientists use jawbreaking words for relatively simple things. A biologist says he has "hypophysectomized" a pigeon when he has removed its pituitary* gland; a psychologist speaks of "tactual-kinesthetic perception" when a blindfolded person indicates a point on his skin which has been stimulated. The opposite is true in mathematics, where ordinary words have fearfully complex meanings-e.g., "fields," "groups," "families," "spaces," "rings," "limits," "domains," "functions." In mathematics, a "simple curve" is a closed curve, no matter how elaborate, which does not cross itself-that is, which has one inside and one outside (see cut). An ordinary figure...
...fiction is concerned we are not disappointed. Mr. Kister, who, judged by his two stories, loves the tactual, tells his grim tale well. Mr. Davidson although we early guess half of the denouement of his romance, nevertheless surprises us with the other half, and throughout the whole tale gives joyously vivid pictures of a West, not yet, we hope, wholly departed. His characters are alive, and the wind blows. In Balked Mr. Raffalovich burlesques certain modern fads, but such fads, even in burlesques, are worth neither the expenditure of Mr. Raffalovich's gifts nor the time of the paper maker...
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