Word: think
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three hour meeting, hardly time enough even to consider the massive recommendations of the two reports, considerably disturbed the feature of these men by placing them on probation. There has never been any adequate definition of the terms of this probation. Any one of the three will presumably think a long time before he advances any political opinion or indulges in any political activity that might displease the Board of Regents while he is still on probation...
Farsighted newsreelers think that one hope for their survival in theaters lies along a trail blazed by Paramount, toward an interpretive digest of the news in a documentary style popularized by the MARCH OF TIME. In the long run, they hope to compete in spot news through big-screen theater television. Theater TV may also become a major movie sideline. Last week 20th Century-Fox was reported nurturing a plan to set up big TV screens in 15 or 20 of its West Coast theaters by year's end. Through closed circuits, Fox would feed topnotch "live" shows...
...story of Matisse's own career clearly made him an example of the first kind of painter. Could he think of an opposite example? "Charity commands me," said Matisse with a smile, "not to name any artists who do paintings of the second sort...
...theory behind the treatment, say the Drs. Sackler, is that histamine may give the brain a better blood supply by dilating the blood vessels. Electric shock, they think, works by increasing the amount of histamine. One advantage of the new treatment: the patient need not go to a hospital. The novel histamine report, Dr. van Ophuijsen suspected, would raise a "healthy storm...
...deplores the tendency in England and the U.S.--not at Harvard, he remarks diplomatically--of university professors to doubt the worth of their academic pursuits. "Outside always suspects Ivory Tower, but insiders now think asking questions too persistently is form of maladjustment. Research, secret joy, but go to Washington to justify it. Whole concept of university breaks down. Used to think disciplines just different ways of asking same question. Now want answers, not truth...