Word: thrills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theory of programmed learning is that nothing succeeds like success. It holds that some subjects are learned best when broken into tiny chunks of information that students can master one by one, each step providing its own little thrill of accomplishment. It works for subjects as diverse as chemistry, philosophy and navigation. Now a high school has organized its entire curriculum on programmed learning's principle...
...steel-nerved, a championship of far-out, far-up sport, and the finest things about it were hidden by clouds and distance. For spectators at Orange, Mass., last week, the World Sport Parachuting Championships held bleak rewards: the sight of countless parachutes floating down, enough accidents to add the thrill of danger. But for the chutists, there was the intoxicating sensation of man flying on his own, guiding his long, downward swoop through the atmosphere...
...proudest of these is the 59-story Pan Am Building, now climbing above Manhattan's Grand Central Station, for which Cotton supplied $25 million of the $100 million cost; he will manage the finished building. Cotton remembers the ground-breaking with special pride. "It was a great thrill," he says, "seeing the Union Jack flying beside the Stars and Stripes over the site of the biggest office building in the world−and knowing we'd put it there with an equal share of British money...
...people realize that the attempt to construct theatres on the basis of acoustical experiments goes back at least to George Saunders designs of 1790. And those who have not yet had the thrill of visiting the Grand Opera in Paris (1861-75) can get an idea of this magnificent building and its celebrated staircase from three engraving here...
...because they think that the good life must have frequent bouts with danger; others do it for therapeutic reasons in times of despair. A few do it to prove to themselves--and, perhaps, to others--that they are men. And, of course, there are those who just seek the thrill...