Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elmo Roper, whose poll on the last election had been as wrong as the others, last week stopped his syndicated weekly newspaper column ("What People Are Thinking"). Roper said he still thinks it important to tell what people think, but he wants to spend more time investigating why they think that...
...matter what the modernists may think, Italy's women rice pickers are not 'rectangular objects with wooden thighs and faces like rotten cantaloupes.'" So ran an editorial in the Italian Communist magazine, Rinascita, which has caught the current Kremlin fever for art with a rosy-Red message (TIME, March 8). Last week, in a letter to Rinascita, 14 ill-indoctrinated party painters struck back. Among them was 37-year-old Renato Guttuso-one of the best Italian artists living. Art, said their letter, should concern itself with "the struggles of the working class [but] to these struggles...
Does he use measurements to paint by? "Oh, no. I use this eye mostly [pointing to his left one] and I hold my head in one spot, like a camera, instead of ducking it around. That may sound a bit rigid, but I think craftsmanship should be uppermost. You build the picture up, very faithfully. The less art you try to put into it the better...
Were college presidents really so concerned about money? In the light of increased costs and (for private colleges) sagging endowment income, they could scarcely think of much else. At the last session of the conference they turned to their biggest worry of all: whether or not to ask for federal aid. They decided in favor of asking-by endorsing a system of federal scholarships for college students. Such a plan would be in line with the $120 million proposal made by the President's Commission on Higher Education. But that didn't mean that the educators liked everything...
...comfortable, the machine must use 27 electrical circuits whose permutations & combinations offer 390,625 possible ways out of discomfort. The gadget is said by Psychiatrist Ashby to "think" because it quickly chooses the proper way, and soon becomes comfortable again, with all its magnets centered...